Re: Request for running texi2pdf in quiet mode

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Am Mittwoch, 6. August 2008 schrieb Graham Percival:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 21:51:20 +0200
>
> Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Could we maybe change the makefiles to run texi2pdf in quiet mode
> > (-q), because currently we get tens of thousands of progress output
> > from texi2pdf, mainly which files are included and the current page
> > number.
> >
> > Or is there a good reason to have texi2pdf print out all that stuff
> > and clutter the output of make web?
>
> The only possible reason would be to view any error messages -- I
> don't know how much -q hides.

texi2pdf --help says:
  -q, --quiet         no output unless errors (implies --batch)

> If the texinfo is badly formed (a wrong @node name, missing },
> etc), -q still produce an error message?  

Hrmpf, you are right, it does not print the error message itself, 
only "pdfetex exited with bad status, quitting". So I suppose we cannot 
easily get rid of the excessive output :(

> What if the @lilypond section is badly formed?

The @lilypond section is processed by lilypond-book (which also produces 
excessive output, but fortunately only when one of the lilypond snippets 
changed, while texi2pdf is run if any of the (i)tely files was touched).

Cheers,
Reinhold
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