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.