[tex-k] error_line etc.

Julian Gilbey jdg at polya.uklinux.net
Tue Jul 28 21:23:58 CEST 2009


On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:47:28AM +0200, Martin Schr?der wrote:
> The current texmf.cnf of TL has these lines:
> ------------------------
> % It's probably inadvisable to change these. At any rate, we must have:
> % 45 < error_line      < 255;
> % 30 < half_error_line < error_line - 15;
> % 60 <= max_print_line;
> % These apply to TeX, Metafont, and MetaPost.
> error_line = 79
> half_error_line = 50
> max_print_line = 79
> ------------------------
> There's at least one documentation error, as max_print_line obviously
> can be >60. But what are the limits for TL2009?

Can't answer the TL2009 query, but I can happily confirm that 60 <= 69
is in fact a true statement :-)

   Julian


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