From: "Sammy Mitchell" 
@Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:16:22 -0500
@Sender: semware-owner{at}sawasdi.apana.org.au



John Frampton  wrote in
news:3E60D626.5050605{at}lynx.dac.neu.edu:
> I run a typesetting program (Tex) from TSEv4.00 using lDos.
> This is under W2000.  On error, Tex has an "e" exit, at which
> point it autmatically calls an editor with the appropriate
> filename and line number in order to locate you in the editor at
> the error point.  The editor is set via a configuration file.  In
> my case there is a line in the Tex config file
>
> My current solution is to not use the "e" exit of Tex and its
> automatic error location facility, but use a normal exit of Tex
> and then (if I want to go to the error point) a TSE macro to load
> and parse the Tex log file to find the error point and then go to
> that point.  This is not a bad solution.  But it is not perfect
> --- an extra key stroke (to call the TSE macro).
>
> Is there a perfect solution?  Can the onlyone macro be used?

What about using the compile macro?

Tex is sort of a compiler, right?  It is syntax checking
your document, and produces an error log.  Sounds like a
perfect candidate to be used with the compile macro.

What is the format of Tex error messages?  Are they written
to stdout or to a filename?

> Is this the first "real" message on the new list?

It just might be!

--
Sammy Mitchell



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