P.S. > "Make" (etc) are not really my concern, but the behaviour of TeXworks > is. If TeXworks can decide whether or not to conceal the log file based > solely on the status code returned by TeX (XeTeX, etc), then that status > code should (again, IMVHO) be able to indicate "things were not right" > as well as "things were so badly wrong that I had to interrupt the > compilation in order to seek advice from the user".
I would be perfectly happy if my preferred behaviour could be invoked IFF a (new) command-line parameter so indicated, e.g.: XeTeX --set-non-zero-status-on="<set of reserved keywords>" ** Phil. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex