On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 09:04:30AM -0500, Bo Peng wrote:
> >I think it is more portable (and much simpler) to use the \nonstopmode
> >macro at the beginning of the file.
>
> We (I) use -interaction=nonstopmode in another incidence as well. We
> should fix them both.
>
> >Also, at a time when everybody wants to use only almost-prerelease
> >software in LyX, code like
> > os.write(fd, r'''
> > \documentstyle{article}
> > \begin{document}\end{document}
> > ''')
> >has a rather 1980's taste :) More seriously, initializing the
> >whole latex machinery takes time.
>
> Sorry, but what exactly smells stale in the above code?
When using \documentstyle instead of \documentclass, latex goes
in 2.09 compatibility mode.
--
Enrico
