[lltx] quietening lualatex console output

Philipp Stephani st_philipp at yahoo.de
Sat Jan 29 11:59:39 CET 2011


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.


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