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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2016-02-10 20:52:01 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2016-02-10 20:52:01 +0000
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texfot (10feb16)
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--- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/man/man1/texfot.1
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/man/man1/texfot.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.28 (Pod::Simple 3.28)
+.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.28 (Pod::Simple 3.29)
.\"
.\" Standard preamble:
.\" ========================================================================
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
.\" ========================================================================
.\"
.IX Title "TEXFOT 1"
-.TH TEXFOT 1 "2015-08-06" "texfot" "Karl Berry"
+.TH TEXFOT 1 "2016-02-09" "texfot" "Karl Berry"
.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
.if n .ad l
@@ -154,8 +154,8 @@ value is that of \fItexcmd\fR. Examples:
\& texfot pdflatex file.tex
\&
\& # Ordinarily all output is copied to /tmp/fot before filtering;
-\& # omit that:
-\& texfot \-\-tee=/dev/null file.tex
+\& # that can be omitted:
+\& texfot pdflatex \-\-tee=/dev/null file.tex
\&
\& # Example of more complex engine invocation:
\& texfot lualatex \-\-recorder \*(Aq\enonstopmode\einput file\*(Aq
@@ -197,6 +197,9 @@ Otherwise, the default: if the line came from stdout, ignore it; if the
line came from stderr, print it (to stdout). (This distinction is made
because TeX engines write relatively few messages to stderr, and it's
not unlikely that any such should be considered.
+.Sp
+It would be easy to add more options to allow for user additions to the
+various regex lists, if that ever seems useful. Or email me (see end).
.PP
Once a particular check matches, the program moves on to process the
next line.
@@ -296,16 +299,16 @@ I wrote this because, in my work as a TUGboat editor
(<http://tug.org/TUGboat>, journal submissions always welcome!), I end
up running and rerunning many papers, many times each. It was too easy
to lose warnings I needed to see in the mass of unvarying and
-uninteresting output from TeX, such as all the style files being read
-and all the fonts being used. I wanted to see all and only those
-messages which needed some action by me.
+uninteresting output from TeX, such as style files being read and fonts
+being used. I wanted to see all and only those messages which needed
+some action by me.
.PP
-I found some other programs of a similar nature, the \f(CW\*(C`silence\*(C'\fR LaTeX
-package, and plenty of other (La)TeX wrappers, but it seemed none of
+I found some other programs of a similar nature, the LaTeX package
+\&\f(CW\*(C`silence\*(C'\fR, and plenty of other (La)TeX wrappers, but it seemed none of
them did what I wanted. Either they read the log file (I wanted the
online output only), or they output more or less than I wanted, or they
required invoking TeX differently (I wanted to keep my build process
-exactly the same, definitely including the TeX invocation, which can get
+exactly the same, most critically the TeX invocation, which can get
complicated). Hence I wrote this.
.PP
Here are some keywords if you want to explore other options:
@@ -326,5 +329,5 @@ the present case\ :).
.IX Header "AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT"
This script and its documentation were written by Karl Berry and both
are released to the public domain. Email \f(CW\*(C`karl@freefriends.org\*(C'\fR with
-bug reports. There is no home page beyond the package on \s-1CTAN:
+bug reports. It has no home page beyond the package on \s-1CTAN:
\&\s0<http://www.ctan.org/pkg/texfot>.