From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/27252 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: texexec is very coy Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:29:54 +0200 Message-ID: <4445E6F2.3050405@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145431808 17438 80.91.229.2 (19 Apr 2006 07:30:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 07:30:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Apr 19 09:30:06 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FW78U-0007pa-08 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:30:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 727A212798; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:30:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01001-04; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:29:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE8D1277C; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:29:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0BF91277C for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:29:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01120-06-2 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:29:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C2EA126F8 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:29:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 13063 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:29:55 +0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:27252 Archived-At: Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > When texexec doesn't find a program or a file, it doesn't complain > loudly. In this output from a recent run > > extra program : dvipos z > > total run time : 3 seconds > > texexec went looking for 'dvipos'. I didn't suspect any problem since I > didn't know that it wasn't installed (and hadn't heard of it until a few > hours ago). An error message like this would be useful:: > > extra program : dvipos z > ERROR: Could not run 'dvipos' > total run time : 3 seconds > > Perhaps at the end of the run repeat all those error msgs (otherwise > they gets buried in all the output). > > A similar message would be useful when the tex file itself doesn't exist: > > $ texexec nosuchfile.tex > > TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 > > fixing engine variable : pdfetex > > total run time : 1 seconds > > Eventually I learnt that a run time of 1 second meant I'd mistyped the > file name, but a message would be useful (and more helpful than > prompting for the correct filename: I like Unix programs to not ask > questions). > i'm not going to spend much more time on oldtexexec; i've added a message to newtexexec: TeXExec | processing document 'x' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | nothing to process TeXExec | runtime: 0.01 Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------