On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 11:01:12PM +0100, Philipp Stephani wrote: > > Am 17.02.2011 um 13:05 schrieb Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard: > > > Hi, > > > > Sorry for replying so lately, I haven't been reading the list recently. > > > > I'm CC'ing to the list, hope that's ok. > > > Le 29/01/2011 10:58, Philipp Stephani a écrit : > >> Am 29.01.2011 um 05:04 schrieb Will Robertson: > >> > >>> When I run a unicode-math document with LuaLaTeX, here's the console > >>> output > >>> I get purely related to loading the various Lua stuff: > >>> [...] > >>> Is there any way to make this quieter? (Can lua files be loaded from lua > >>> without being printed in the console output?) > > > > Future versions of luatexbase may be packed in only one sty file and one lua > > file, which would reduce output. > > That would be nice, but only as a temporary solution. (Imagine a > recommendation for C++ programmers to put their complete code in one > file—such a suggestion would be immediately dismissed as absurd.) > LuaTeX should really print file names only if the user requests it, > and even then in a readable format without parentheses etc.
I don't usually compile C/C++ files invoking gcc/ld directly, I use make which is very chatty by default, even the new silent mode prints the name of every compiled or linked object. > > For lualibs, I don't know. Printing lua file > > names was considered a feature, for consistency with TeX and ease of > > debugging. > > If there is any possibility, this should be turned off. The Rule of > Silence says: When a program has nothing surprising to say, it should > say nothing. So, ideally, running lualatex on a file that produces no > errors or warnings should not output any single character. *TeX can be quite slow; I've a ~100 pages Arabic book that takes about a minute, if ConTeXt did not print anything at all it would have been felt much slower (BTW, ConTeXt terminal output is much more useful and human readable than LaTeX's). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian Arab
