stopping texexec

stopping texexec

[Hans van der Meer]

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I have a fairly hefty tex run, with many intervening metapost figures  
being made.
Running "texmfstart texexec main-file" from a unix shell.
When an error occurs, e.g. in the metapost processing, one gives an X  
to quit that part of tex-processing.
However the process goes on and on, because of the many successive  
invocations.
Control-C does not help.
Is there a way to stop the texexec processing from running? (other  
than opening another shell, finding the pid of the main process and  
killing that).

Hans van der Meer



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Re: stopping texexec

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hans van der Meer wrote:
> I have a fairly hefty tex run, with many intervening metapost figures 
> being made.
> Running "texmfstart texexec main-file" from a unix shell.
> When an error occurs, e.g. in the metapost processing, one gives an X to 
> quit that part of tex-processing.
> However the process goes on and on, because of the many successive 
> invocations.
> Control-C does not help.

I usually use Control-\

I do not think TeX's exit code distinguishes between your pressing X
and aborting the run, or just pressing Enter and continuing the run,

Best, Taco

Re: stopping texexec

[Hans van der Meer]

On Jan 25, 2007, at 12:05, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

>
>
> Hans van der Meer wrote:
>> I have a fairly hefty tex run, with many intervening metapost figures
>> being made.
>> Running "texmfstart texexec main-file" from a unix shell.
>> When an error occurs, e.g. in the metapost processing, one gives  
>> an X to
>> quit that part of tex-processing.
>> However the process goes on and on, because of the many successive
>> invocations.
>> Control-C does not help.
>
> I usually use Control-\
>
> I do not think TeX's exit code distinguishes between your pressing X
> and aborting the run, or just pressing Enter and continuing the run,
>
> Best, Taco
> _______________________________________________

Thanks, that does the trick. Not always the first time, but  
definitely much better than Control-C's and X's.

met vriendelijke groet
Hans van der Meer