OK, this I cannot really understand..
Basically, I use scite that calls a lua script, and through that, pdflatex. (If scite is ran from a terminal, then the pdflatex output called through it is dumped to the same terminal, and then one can also interact with pdflatex, in case of errors)
Today, I added to one of my files:
\showthe\paperheight
\showthe\pdfpageheight
\showthe\paperwidth
\showthe\pdfpagewidth
... and I'd run pdflatex as usual - and I'd notice this in the log:
? > 0.0pt.
l.6 \showthe\paperheight
? > 845.04684pt.
l.7 \showthe\pdfpageheight
? > 0.0pt.
l.8 \showthe\paperwidth
? > 597.50787pt.
l.9 \showthe\pdfpagewidth
... and pdflatex kept on going, and all was fine.
Then, I keep working - and suddenly, pdflatex does not run over the \showthe commands anymore; instead, it starts waiting for a user input! Here I'd answer with 'scroll', i.e.
? > 845.04684pt.
l.7 \showthe\pdfpageheight
? S
OK, entering \scrollmode...
> 0.0pt.
l.8 \showthe\paperwidth
> 597.50787pt.
l.9 \showthe\pdfpagewidth
... and then it would run through the end!
Now, I am forced to call pdflatex like:
pdflatex -interaction=scrollmode file.tex ...
... so as to cause pdflatex to 'run through' these commands - but now I'm afraid it will not stop on some more serious error (where I'd otherwise prefer it to stop).
Does anyone have an idea about what happened here - and how do I get my old pdflatex behavior back?
$ pdflatex --version
pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2 (TeX Live 2009)
kpathsea version 5.0.0
$ uname -r
2.6.32-26-generic
Thanks in advance,
Cheers!
