keeping output

keeping output

[Hans van der Meer]

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This question must have been asked before, but I cannot find it.

Running texexec a number of messages flash by:

  	error in metapost run : syllabus-s-mpgraph.mp:397

Alas, al the intermediate results disappear, especially the mpgraph  
files.
And of the metapost logs also one only survives.

How does one preserve all these for debugging purposes?

Hans van der Meer




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Re: keeping output

[gnwiii]

On 6/14/06, Hans van der Meer <hansm@science.uva.nl> wrote:
>
> This question must have been asked before, but I cannot find it.
>
> Running texexec a number of messages flash by:
>
>   error in metapost run : syllabus-s-mpgraph.mp:397
>
> Alas, al the intermediate results disappear, especially the mpgraph files.
> And of the metapost logs also one only survives.

In such cases I find it helpful to run texexec in an emacs shell window.
Some unix/linux terminals can save a complete log of a session, e.g.,
"xterm -l".

> How does one preserve all these for debugging purposes?

Once you know where the problems occur you can make simpler documents
to debug one problem at a time (also helpful when you need to post an
example for others to examine).

-- 
George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

Re: keeping output

[Hans Hagen]

Hans van der Meer wrote:
> This question must have been asked before, but I cannot find it.
>
> Running texexec a number of messages flash by:�
>
> � error in metapost run : syllabus-s-mpgraph.mp:397
>
> Alas, al the intermediate results disappear, especially the mpgraph files.
> And of the metapost logs also one only survives.
>
> How does one preserve all these for debugging purposes?
some data is saved in a copy of the log file; alternatively, process the mp file independently: 

texexec --mptex somefile-mpgraph.mp 

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