[texhax] Command output is wrapped at column 80

Raymond Wanyoike raymond.wanyoike at gmail.com
Tue Jul 7 15:14:41 CEST 2015


Thanks. I had searched for related posts on output wrapping, but didn't come across that question. 
"export max_print_line" solves it for me.

-- 
Raymond

> On Jul 7, 2015, at 16:02, Paul Gessler <pdgessler at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Raymond,
> 
> The line wrap settings may be changed in a local configuration file
> called texmf.cnf or temporarily by exporting environment variables
> (use this for experimenting with various values).
> 
> The process for TeX Live (an related distributions) is nicely
> described in the accepted answer to this TeX Stack Exchange question:
> Avoid linebreaks in LaTeX console / log output [1]
> 
> The path to the local texmf.cnf might be slightly different in a
> MacTeX installation (I don't have a Mac to check :-), but it should be
> similar to the path listed there for TeX Live on Linux.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> PG.
> 
> [1] http://tex.stackexchange.com/q/52988/21344
> 
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 5:02 AM, Raymond Wanyoike
> <raymond.wanyoike at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Output from pdflatex/lualatex/xelatex commands are all hard wrapped in the terminal at column 80. I'm using MacTeX, but I have reason to believe it's the same on other builds. Reading output is harder when long lines (eg. paths) are prematurely wrapped. Thanks!
>> 
>> --
>> Raymond
>> 
>> 
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