Hi Philipp,
(just a remark about a very particular point)
Philipp Stephani a écrit :
> [...] most other compilers issue messages in the file:line:error
> format, but the TeX compiler outputs useless noise like page numbers
> or names of included image files, and no sensible messages at all.
Are you aware of the -file-line-error command-line option in Web2c's
implementation of TeX & friends ? Most probably, MikTeX's implementation
has something similar, but I'm just to lazy to check right now.
Manuel.