texexec message suppression.

texexec message suppression.

[John R. Culleton]

for some time now I have been fussing over the volume of uneccessary 
(to me) informational messages spewed forth by texexec, in particular 
the long list of font scripts repeated sometimes 8 or 9 times. Since 
I don't even use most of these scripts I wonder why they show up on 
every pass of every compile.  The --silent parameter to texexec 
should suppress some or all of these message, or so the manual says. 
But it doesn't.  I get the same long list of messages, repeated over 
and over. 

Ideally I could suppress informational messages but keep the warning 
messages, per the traditional unix > and 2> output routings  for 
sysout and syserr.  But texexec does not appear to make the 
distinction. 

Routing all output to /dev/null is a trick that I use sometimes, but 
if the run errors off then it just hangs with no message.

Are there any clever workarounds I have missed? Is there a setting 
somewhere in my texlive instllation that I can tweak? Should I do 
surgery on texexec itself? (Never fooled with Ruby, but there is 
always a first time.) 
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John Culleton
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Re: texexec message suppression.

[luigi scarso]

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My 2 cents


>
> Ideally I could suppress informational messages but keep the warning
> messages, per the traditional unix > and 2> output routings  for
> sysout and syserr.  But texexec does not appear to make the
> distinction.


$>texexec --pdf --batch  mytest.tex  &>/dev/null

Routing all output to /dev/null is a trick that I use sometimes, but
> if the run errors off then it just hangs with no message.


for errors
$>egrep  '^\!'  mytest.log

and for figures
$> egrep 'figure.*can not be found' mytest.log




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Re: texexec message suppression.

[Patrick Gundlach]

> (to me) informational messages spewed forth by texexec, in particular 
> the long list of font scripts repeated sometimes 8 or 9 times. 

Did you try \preloadtypescripts?

See
<http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060622.163313.d4c08e11.en.html>

Patrick

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Re: texexec message suppression.

[John R. Culleton]

On Monday 14 May 2007 19:11, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> > (to me) informational messages spewed forth by texexec, in
> > particular the long list of font scripts repeated sometimes 8 or
> > 9 times.
>
> Did you try \preloadtypescripts?
>
> See
> <http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20060622.163313.d4c08e11.
>en.html>
>
> Patrick

If I put it after other font statements it has no effect, If I put it 
first ahead of the font statements the run has missing font errors.  
Possibly  I am using a defective typescript file. 

Here is the error message:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
! Font \*MyCharter7ptrmslrm*:=8r-bchr8a-slanted-167 at 7.0pt not 
loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
And here is the typescript file:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
% Charter (Bitstream)
\usetypescriptfile[type-buy]

\starttypescript [serif] [charter] [8r]
  \definefontsynonym [Charter-Roman]      [bchr8r]  [encoding=8r]
  \definefontsynonym [Charter-Italic]     [bchri8r] [encoding=8r]
  \definefontsynonym [Charter-Bold]       [bchb8r]  [encoding=8r]
  \definefontsynonym [Charter-BoldItalic] [bchbi8r] [encoding=8r]
  \definefontsynonym [Charter-Slanted]    [bchro8r]  [encoding=8r]
  \definefontsynonym [Charter-BoldSlanted][bchbo8r]  [encoding=8r]
%  \definefontsynonym [Charter-Roman-Caps] [bchr8r-capitalized-800]
[encoding=8r]
\stoptypescript
%
\starttypescript [serif] [charter] [name]
\usetypescript[serif][fallback]
  \definefontsynonym [Serif]      [Charter-Roman]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifItalic][Charter-Italic]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifBold]   [Charter-Bold]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldItalic] [Charter-BoldItalic]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifSlanted] [Charter-Slanted]
  \definefontsynonym [SerifBoldSlanted][Charter-BoldSlanted]
%  \definefontsynonym [SerifCaps] [Charter-Roman-Caps]
\stoptypescript

\starttypescript [Charter]
\definetypeface [MyCharter] [rm] [serif] [charter] [default] 
[encoding=8r]
\stoptypescript
----------------------------------------------------------

But this error does not occur if I don't use the \preloadtypescripts 
command.

Any hints?


 
John C. 

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Re: texexec message suppression.

[Peter Münster]

On Mon, 14 May 2007, John R. Culleton wrote:

> Routing all output to /dev/null is a trick that I use sometimes, but 
> if the run errors off then it just hangs with no message.

Hello John,

you could check the exit code of texexec to decide whether to look into its
output or not. In a post-commit hook for svn for example, I use something
like this:
F=`mktemp`
if ! texexec -nonstopmode ... &>$F; then
   mailx -s "texexec failure" $user <$F
fi
rm -f $F

For me, the problem is another one: you get often no warning or error
messages at all from ConTeXt, for example for missing fonts, misspelled
key-value options etc.
So, after a negative "grep -i -e warn -e error texexec-output" you can't be
sure, that there aren't still some problems in your file.

Cheers, Peter

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