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Re: texi2pdf errors
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David Kastrup |
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Re: texi2pdf errors |
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Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:51:31 +0100 |
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Julien Rioux <address@hidden> writes:
> On 08/02/2012 12:30 PM, Phil Holmes wrote:
>> That also looks a bit hacky/difficult to understand why we do it.
>>
>> Is it the case, then, that with --quiet or --batch, texi2pdf carries on
>> processing despite errors occurring and only stops at the end, whereas
>> without those it stops immediately?
>>
>> --
>> Phil Holmes
>
> Exactly. And when it stops immediately, it waits for user input on how
> to proceed. This is not what one wants when running texi2pdf as part
> of a build system, hence using /dev/null as input. Unfortunately I
> don't see a simple command-line switch to achieve "stop on the first
> error and do not wait for input".
Using /dev/null as input (or closing the file descriptor with <&-
altogether) for an interactive TeX process should achieve just that.
--
David Kastrup