Hi David, > xelatex -max-print-line=2048 -c-style-errors -interaction=batchmode > "\def\istwocol{1} \input{./tmpmyfile.tex}" The option -max-print-line does not exist. The env. variable max_print_line can be used: max_print_line=2048 xelatex -c-style-errors -interaction=... Best, Akira