<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">To summarize, I had been using some unrecognized options and was giving them within quotes, so they were not taking effect.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I am now using the following:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"> <font size="4"><b> xelatex -interaction=batchmode -halt-on-error </b></font></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><font size="4"><b><br></b></font></font></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="georgia, serif"><font size="4"><b><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"></div></b></font></font><code style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-family:consolas,menlo,monaco,"lucida console","liberation mono","dejavu sans mono","bitstream vera sans mono","courier new",monospace,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:19.5px;color:rgb(36,39,41);background-color:rgb(239,240,241)">-interaction=batchmode</code><span style="color:rgb(36,39,41);font-family:"lucida grande","lucida sans unicode","lucida sans",tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)"> makes TeX 'quieter', so in a batch file that plus </span><code style="font-size:13px;margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-family:consolas,menlo,monaco,"lucida console","liberation mono","dejavu sans mono","bitstream vera sans mono","courier new",monospace,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:19.5px;color:rgb(36,39,41);background-color:rgb(239,240,241)">-halt-on-error</code><span style="color:rgb(36,39,41);font-family:"lucida grande","lucida sans unicode","lucida sans",tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)"> can make sense for 'either make the PDF or abort early' runs.<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"> </div></span></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="color:rgb(36,39,41);font-family:"lucida grande","lucida sans unicode","lucida sans",tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">(</div></span><font color="#242729" face="georgia, serif"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px"><a href="http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/258814/what-is-the-difference-between-interaction-nonstopmode-and-halt-on-error">http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/258814/what-is-the-difference-between-interaction-nonstopmode-and-halt-on-error</a><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">)</div></span></font><span style="color:rgb(36,39,41);font-family:"lucida grande","lucida sans unicode","lucida sans",tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"></div></span><b style="font-size:large;font-family:georgia,serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"></div></b></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">ShreeDevi<br>____________________________________________________________<br>भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ <a href="http://bhajans.ramparivar.com" target="_blank">http://bhajans.ramparivar.com</a><br></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 4:49 PM, ShreeDevi Kumar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shreeshrii@gmail.com" target="_blank">shreeshrii@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"></div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">xelatex: unrecognized option '-max-print-line=2048'</span></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font face="georgia, serif">xelatex: unrecognized option '-c-style-errors'</font></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font face="georgia, serif">This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99996 (TeX Live 2016) (preloaded format=xelatex)</font></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font face="georgia, serif"> restricted \write18 enabled.</font></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><font face="georgia, serif">entering extended mode</font></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">So using the following minimises the ouput:</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"> xelatex -interaction=batchmode "\def\isnormal{1} \input{./tmpmyfile.tex} " </div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">Using the following eliminates all output.</div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"> xelatex "\def\istwocol{1} \input{./tmpmyfile.tex} -max-print-line=2048 -c-style-errors -interaction=batchmode" >/dev/null </div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">I had tried the 'silence' package but that did not reduce the terminal output (at least not visibly). I did not compre the log files to see whether the messages were reduced therein.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Thank you all for your prompt replies and help.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br clear="all"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">ShreeDevi<br>____________________________________________________________<br>भजन - कीर्तन - आरती @ <a href="http://bhajans.ramparivar.com" target="_blank">http://bhajans.ramparivar.com</a><br></div></div></div>
<br></span><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Bruno Le Floch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blflatex@gmail.com" target="_blank">blflatex@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On 08/01/2016 12:51 PM, Zdenek Wagner wrote:<br>
> Append >/dev/null in unix systems or >null in Windows, it will send<br>
> all terminal output to a black hole.<br>
><br>
> Zdeněk Wagner<br>
> <a href="http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml</a><br>
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><br>
><br>
> 2016-08-01 12:42 GMT+02:00 ShreeDevi Kumar <<a href="mailto:shreeshrii@gmail.com" target="_blank">shreeshrii@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
>> Hi,<br>
>><br>
>> I am using commands similar to the following for processing the sanskrit<br>
>> documents using xelatex -<br>
>><br>
>> xelatex "\def\istwocol{1} \input{./tmpmyfile.tex} -max-print-line=2048<br>
>> -c-style-errors -interaction=batchmode"<br>
<br>
</span>xelatex sees the options as being part of the tex to run. Putting the<br>
options first should fix this:<br>
<br>
xelatex -max-print-line=2048 -c-style-errors -interaction=batchmode<br>
<span>"\def\istwocol{1} \input{./tmpmyfile.tex}"<br>
<br>
</span><span><font color="#888888">Bruno<br>
</font></span><div><div><br>
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