Am 16.02.2010 um 14:49 schrieb Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard: > 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 ? Yes, but this doesn't work for warnings, fatal errors or bad boxed, so it's pretty useless: you have to parse the output anyway.