[tex-live] dviselect wishlist?
Ryo Furue
furue at hawaii.edu
Sat Nov 16 04:20:32 CET 2013
Hello,
I'm new to this list. I was wondering how to send a little
request (wish) to the author(s) of dviselect.
It's a little thing. I'd like it to return a non-zero value
when the specified page is out of range. It would also be
nice if dviselect didn't generate an output in that case.
The current behavior is
$ dviselect -i tmp.dvi -o tmp2.dvi 100
Wrote 0 pages, 84 bytes
$ echo $?
0
$ ls -l tmp2.dvi
. . . 84 Nov 15 17:15 tmp2.dvi
$
If it returned a nonzero value and didn't generate an output,
it would be easy to split the DVI file into individual pages:
n=1
while true; do
dviselect -i infile.dvi -o out$n.dvi $n || break
n=`expr $n + 1`
done
Of course, it's not a big deal. It's just a little bit
of nice nicety :-)
Regards,
Ryo
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