[XeTeX] \typeout command not recognized ?
Bruno Voisin
bvoisin at mac.com
Fri Feb 24 11:20:49 CET 2006
Le 24 févr. 06 à 09:58, Jonathan Kew a écrit :
> No; \typeout is a LaTeX macro, and that's why it causes a problem
> here.
Of course you're right. That's what happens when one (me) answers
without having a copy of the TeXbook at hand.
latex.ltx defines:
\def\typeout{\immediate\write17}
and this is missing from miniltx.tex which contains only:
\def\@warning{\immediate\write16}
By the way, do you know where one can find the significance of these
stream numbers (again I don't have the TeXbook at hand right now)?
plain.tex seems to indicate -1 is the log file:
\def\wlog{\immediate\write\m at ne} % write on log file (only)
and latex.ltx that 15 is texsys.aux:
\immediate\openout15=texsys.aux
\immediate\write15{\today^^J}
\immediate\closeout15 %
and miniltx.tex that 16 is the console.
Bruno
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