Wilfred van Rooijen wrote:
> It seems that the source code from TeXworks is available, so it should > be possible to add a feature to "turn overfull boxes into some sort of > error but not quite". You'd have to talk to the TeXworks people. Only by inspecting the log file; please see below. > On a linux computer, you could implement your own request by making an > alias: make an executable file called "xelatex" and add it to the search > path before the latex path; then, this new "xelatex" is really a script > (shell script, or python, can be anything) which calls xelatex (with the > absolute path to avoid confusion). When the xelatex run finishes, the > script inspects the log file and provides a non-zero exit status on > certain errors and warnings. Yes, it is the "inspecting the log file" that I am trying to avoid, in the interests of efficiency; an inspection of the log file should be required (as it currently is) only if the status code returned by *TeX is non-zero. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex