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Questions tagged [terminal-output]

This tag shall be used for questions related to the terminal, e.g. using \typeout or interacting with the command-line from within a LaTeX document. It should not be used for questions just using a terminal-output to describe their error message.

Questions tagged with are about LaTeX and its (or its compiler's) interactions with the command line (e.g. printing something in the command-line or executing command etc.). Especially \typeout and related commands are in the focus of this tag.

If you just use terminal output to describe your error (e.g. just printing the error message) please use appropriate tags for your error.

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pdflatex commandline hide compilation output

My program produces multiple outputs: I have a .tex file compiled, and some of them are produced in the command-line. The compilation info of pdf-latex is useless to me and I would like to hide it to make my command-line output readable. I have…
Haxelaar
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Backspace in terminal output

Is there a way to insert a backspace character while writing to the terminal? I'd like to remove the space character that is automatically inserted between two calls of \message{}: \message{.}\message{.}\message{.} \bye is written as . . . to the…
AlexG
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Unescape commands argument in typeout

I have a macro which uses \typeout to print messages. I would like to unescape these. \newcommand{\mymessage}[1]{ \typeout{#1} } Then \mymessage{foo\#bar} should print foo#bar. Right now it prints foo\#bar. Edit: Answers below show how to solve…
highsciguy
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Reducing output garbage

Possible Duplicate: Reducing the console output of LaTeX running: C:\Program Files\Text\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\lualatex.exe -interaction=batchmodesrc-specials main.tex lualatex.exe> This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.70.2-2012060719 (MiKTeX 2.9…
AbstractDissonance
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Print to terminal after final compiler message?

I use only lualatex, but I believe this is a general *.tex question: Compiling from command line (Linux, probably any system), the Terminal response concludes with something like this: 507 words of node memory still in use: ... ... Output written on…
rallg
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How to print Hello World in terminal using the command tex

While I went through the tutorial on Latex I couldn't get how to print "Hello World" using command tex as illustrated in wikibooks.The command I would like to execute in terminal is: tex '\empty Hello world!\bye'. But the error I'm getting is: ! I…
justin
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MAC OS Catalina cannot compile latex from Terminal

I upgraded to Catalina and now I am not able to compile latex files in Terminal, the compiler runs but the classes are not read, the path to the .cls files is in /etc/paths, when I copy the .cls file to the folder in which the compiled file is the…
Richard
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Display Ubuntu terminal output

I am writing a memoir in latex. I have lot of output from Ubuntu terminal and I have tried to put in verbatim, but this is really not pretty. I was wandering if there is a latex tip to put Linux terminal output in latex and make it pretty.
theCode
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How to disable showing log on terminal in latex

How do I disable showing all information to the terminal? Is possible to only show errors not log,warnings etc.?
bardzo
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