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Re: debiandoc-sgml vs. docbook



>>>>> On Thu, 26 Nov 1998 19:29:38 -0500, Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com> said:

 Raul> Havoc Pennington <rhpennin@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
 >> The annoying thing about LaTeX is that when it hits an error, the
 >> interpreter stops and asks for interactive input. This causes
 >> debiandoc2latex2e to hang forever and mysteriously.

 Raul> Er.. does it open /dev/tty?  If so, it should get a flag to say
 Raul> don't do that.
 Raul> If it's just reading from stdin, use </dev/null

Actually a nice way to do it is to run this (assuming the file is
foo.tex). 

latex '\nonstopmode\input{foo.tex}

This is what auctex under emacs does to make sure the output doesn't
stop. 

Dres
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