XeLaTeX Quiet Output and Halt on Error

Question

I find the output of XeLaTeX excessively verbose. I am really just interested in errors (not warnings), and the offending line number. I also would like xelatex to halt (exit) on error. Is there a magic incantation that can produce this?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 09 '13 at 17:17

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If you want to get rid of ALL warnings you can load the silence package

\usepackage{silence}

and then issue the command

\WarningsOff*

Have a look at its documentation for selective warnings filtering and errors filtering, if you need it.

Just remember that warnings are what they are supposed to be: they warn you about something wrong in your document.

For your latter request, if you want xelatex to halt on errors (and exit) add --halt-on-error to the command line, otherwise, if you want a prompt where to decide what to do, add --interaction=errorstopmode to the command line.

answered Dec 09 '13 at 17:17

karlkoeller

124,410

--halt-on-error worked as expected, but it did not indicate the line number where the error occurred. The silence package seems to have no effect: https://gist.github.com/mrichman/7876806 I really want to hide all that (/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex verbosity. – Mark Richman Dec 09 '13 at 17:55
@MarkRichman 1. I can't see any error in the log file. 2. silence is certainly not perfect and can miss something... 3. Without a MWE it is difficult to say what it misses... – karlkoeller Dec 09 '13 at 18:01
Actually, I'm giving rubber a try. I think it may do what I want. – Mark Richman Dec 09 '13 at 18:04

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 06 '17 at 23:03

With TeX Live a Perl script called texfot (by Karl Berry) is available.

Running

texfot --ignore '(Warning|Overfull|Underfull)' pdflatex test

on the file test.tex that follows

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}

\hbox to 0pt{aaa} % Overfull \hbox

\hbox to 100pt{x} % Underfull \hbox

{\fontsize{125}{0}\selectfont a} % font warning

\foo % undefined control sequence

\end{document}

the output on the console is

/Library/TeX/texbin/texfot: invoking: pdflatex test
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
! Undefined control sequence.
l.11 \foo
! Emergency stop.
l.11 \foo
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

You can customize the regexp string to your will if you find something else should be ignored.

The .log file is still produced entirely:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2016.12.23)  6 JAN 2017 23:58
entering extended mode
 restricted \write18 enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
**test
(./test.tex
LaTeX2e <2016/03/31> patch level 3
Babel <3.9r> and hyphenation patterns for 83 language(s) loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo
File: size10.clo 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
)
\c@part=\count79
\c@section=\count80
\c@subsection=\count81
\c@subsubsection=\count82
\c@paragraph=\count83
\c@subparagraph=\count84
\c@figure=\count85
\c@table=\count86
\abovecaptionskip=\skip41
\belowcaptionskip=\skip42
\bibindent=\dimen102
) (./warnerr.aux)
\openout1 = `warnerr.aux'.

LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 3.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 3.

Overfull \hbox (15.00005pt too wide) detected at line 5
\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 aaa
 []


Underfull \hbox (badness 10000) detected at line 7
\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 x
 []


LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `OT1/cmr/m/n' in size <125> not available
(Font)              size <24.88> substituted on input line 9.

! Undefined control sequence.
l.11 \foo
          % undefined control sequence
? 
! Emergency stop.
l.11 \foo
          % undefined control sequence
End of file on the terminal!


Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 200 strings out of 493013
 2160 string characters out of 6133342
 53632 words of memory out of 5000000
 3833 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+600000
 3939 words of font info for 15 fonts, out of 8000000 for 9000
 1141 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 23i,0n,17p,111b,64s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 29 '14 at 19:09

After trying a whole day I ended up dong my own python script with pyparsing:

#!/usr/local/bin/python
# file: xelatex-clean.py
def spoil(l):
    if type(l) == list:
        if len(l) == 0:
            return ''
        elif len(l) == 1:
            return spoil(l[0])
    return l

def pprint(nested, max_level, level = 0, indent = '    '):
    for i,c in enumerate(nested):
        nested[i] = spoil(c)
    for c in nested:
        if type(c) != list:
            print (indent*level + c.replace('\n','\n' + indent*level))
        elif level < max_level:
            pprint (c, max_level, level + 1)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import sys
    from pyparsing import nestedExpr, OneOrMore, Word, printables
    if len(sys.argv) != 2:
        print ("Usage: xelatex document.tex | xelatex-clean.py <nesting-level>")
    xelatex_output = sys.stdin.read()
    l = nestedExpr('(',')',content=OneOrMore(Word(printables+' \n',excludeChars='()'))).parseString('(%s)'%xelatex_output).asList()[0]
    pprint(l,int(sys.argv[1]))

The spoil function removes empty or inline parentheses that otherwise would fill the output with empty spaces. I didn't spend much time to see if I could use the standard pprint function instead of my own. Hope it helps.

Usage:

<xelatex command> | xelatex-clean.py <nesting-level>

Example 1:

> xelatex document.tex | xelatex-clean.py 0

This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.3 
TeX Live 2013
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode

see the transcript file for additional information
Output written on document.pdf 
2 pages
.
Transcript written on document.log.

[Finished in 2.4s]

Example 2:

> xelatex document.tex | xelatex-clean.py 1

This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.3 
TeX Live 2013
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode

    ./document.tex
    LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
    Babel <3.9g> and hyphenation patterns for 78 languages loaded.

    /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/themes/font/beamerfontthem
    eprofessionalfonts.sty
    /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/themes/font/beamerfontthem
    eserif.sty
    /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pgf/frontendlayer/tikz/librarie
    s/tikzlibrarypositioning.code.tex
    /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/silence/silence.sty
    ./document.aux
    /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tipa/t3cmr.fd
    *geometry* driver: auto-detecting
    *geometry* detected driver: xetex
    ABD: EveryShipout initializing macros 
    ./document.out
    ./document.out
    /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/translator/dicts/translato
    r-basic-dictionary/translator-basic-dictionary-English.dict
    /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/translator/dicts/translato
    r-bibliography-dictionary/translator-bibliography-dictionary-English.dict
    /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/translator/dicts/translato
    r-environment-dictionary/translator-environment-dictionary-English.dict
    /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/translator/dicts/translato
    r-months-dictionary/translator-months-dictionary-English.dict
    /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/translator/dicts/translato
    r-numbers-dictionary/translator-numbers-dictionary-English.dict
    /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/translator/dicts/translato
    r-theorem-dictionary/translator-theorem-dictionary-English.dict
    ./document.nav
    /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/euenc/eu1lmtt.fd

    [1] 
    /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsa.fd
    /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsb.fd
    <use  "../figs/figure1.pdf" >
    <use  "../figs/figure2.pdf" >
    <use  "../figs/figure3.pdf" >
    <use  "../figs/figure4.pdf" >
    Overfull \hbox 
    1.99998pt too wide
    in paragraph at lines 132--132
     [] 

    Overfull \vbox 
    16.81339pt too high
    detected at line 132
    [2] 
    ./document.aux
see the transcript file for additional information
Output written on document.pdf 
2 pages
.
Transcript written on document.log.

Eduardo Santana · Answer 4 · 2020-05-05T20:21:02.653

0

(...)
-interaction=STRING     set interaction mode (STRING=batchmode/nonstopmode/
                          scrollmode/errorstopmode)

Run xelatex with -interaction=batchmode -halt-on-error

edited May 05 '20 at 20:21

answered Jan 06 '17 at 22:04

Eduardo Santana

211

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Related: How to reduce terminal output from xelatex?; What reasons (if any) are there for compiling in interactive mode? – Werner Jan 06 '17 at 22:42
I think it is xelatex -interaction=batchmode -halt-on-error main.tex that suppresses the output in terminal. – zyy May 03 '20 at 20:23
That reduces the output, but doesn't eliminate it. I would really like it to not say anything unless something goes wrong, and in the case something does, complain about it on stderr, not stdout. – Mark Reed May 04 '23 at 20:41

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