Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> Phil assumed that scanning the log file is time consuming and thus > suggested configurable exit values. But as Zdeněk already pointed > out, scanning the log file is not time consuming at all. Whether or not scanning the log file is time-consuming is not really my point. The key point is this : only *TeX (where *TeX is any derivative of TeX; I do not wish to suggest modifying TeX itself out of respect for Don's wishes) /knows/ whether (e.g.,) an overfull \hbox has been generated during a *TeX run; other utilities can try to guess (e.g., by scanning the log file, or the DVI file, or the PDF, or whatever) but they cannot /know/. Therefore *TeX is the correct part of the system to modify in order to inform subsequent utilities whether or not such an error has occurred. ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
