Am 29.01.2011 um 11:22 schrieb Will Robertson: >> - \scrollmode (i.e. no user interaction) by default > > ...please no! In my limited experience with seeing others use LaTeX, > \nonstopmode is the cause of many undiagnosed (or late-diagnosed) problems > that make the whole compilation *more* mysterious, not less, to the average > user.
ok, then maybe a behavior similar to GCC might make sense, i.e., don't produce any output if an error has occurred. I think most users will use editors and output parsers anyway, it is then their task to signal errors.
