Scripsit Mark Rafn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Yes. This seems to be a flaw in LaTeX - it doesn't interactively identify > itself when run.
Huh? The LaTeX I run identifies itself quite plainly in the third line of the output: pc-043:~/foo$ latex radio.tex This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1) (radio.tex LaTeX2e <1999/12/01> patch level 1 Babel <v3.6Z> and hyphenation patterns for american, british, danish, nohyphena tion, loaded. (/usr/local/stow/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 1999/09/10 v1.4a Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/local/stow/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size12.clo)) (/usr/local/stow/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/avantgar.sty) (radio.aux) (/usr/local/stow/share/texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/ot1pag.fd) [1] (radio.aux) ) Output written on radio.dvi (1 page, 1152 bytes). Transcript written on radio.log. pc-043:~/foo$ If there is any problem it would be that TeX has a tendency to write so much routine stuff to stdout that most users - novices and experts alike - don't bother to read *any* of it unless the run happens to stop with an error. (I understand that this is precisely why the LaTeX people are not happy with relying on human-readable diagnostics output to prevent hacked files from erroneourly ending up in places where pristine files are expected, without anybody noticing). However, the verbosity certainly isn't a fault that LaTeX can be blamed for. Only four of the lines above are ones that LaTeX (in a broad sense, but excluding the TeX engine) could, technically, have chosen not to emit. -- Henning Makholm "However, the fact that the utterance by Epimenides of that false sentence could imply the existence of some Cretan who is not a liar is rather unsettling." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]