> non-zero status codes should be reserved for various categories > of warning, error, severe error, fatal error, etc., should they not ?
No I think the (now, whatever the convention in vms was) normal convention is that programs have a clear distinction between warnings and errors. The engine, and the user code in the document itself should be free to give warnings safe in the knowledge that they _won't_ stop a build with make etc. David -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex