On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Eli Barzilay <e...@barzilay.org> wrote: > Three minutes ago, Robby Findler wrote: >> I do not have an example of different outputs >> >> The value is that the latex transcript pauses in the middle so you >> know where the error message is. >> >> You can see what I mean by forcing scribble to call some undefined >> latex macro. > > Ah -- now that you say that I remember how it goes... (It's probably > been more than a decade since I ran latex directly, not via some > makefile, scribble, emacs, or whatever.) > > So a crude hack would be for the stdin that is sent to the process to > have something like "quit\n". Something better would be to find out > some option that makes it abort on a first error instead of switching > to the compile-what-you-can-to-the-eof. > > Does that sound right?
Yes, altho I think it would be best to drop into a mode where you are interacting with latex directly when an error is detected (not sure how possible that is). Alternatively, putting what I described in the docs explicitly and recommending it on the mailing list seems fine. Robby _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
