{logging} is about questions that concern information in the log file. For other files created during the compilation, use {auxiliary-files} instead.

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Write to log without wrapping

I'd like to to generate some metadata in the log file that I can copy to another application. But the log file is wrapped to 80 columns and I end up with newlines embedded in what I'm putting there. ...
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Display hyphenation options for a specific word

When TeX produces Overfull box, is puts something like this in the log: Overfull \hbox (15.47195pt too wide) in paragraph at lines 7--9 []\OT1/cmr/m/n/10 I re-ally re-ally want to get dis-played the ...
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Avoid linebreaks in LaTeX console / log output

Is it possible to tell the LaTeX command not to use line breaks in its console / log output? This would make it easier to automate the processing of the log file, e.g. extracting the names of missing ...
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Suppress the log file lines written by a specific package?

The marginfix package is incredibly verbose in what it writes to the log file. For example: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{marginfix} \listfiles \begin{document} Here is some text\marginpar{This ...
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A LaTeX log analyzer application (visualizing TeX expansion)

Consider the following MWE, test.tex: \documentclass[12pt]{article} \begin{document} \tracingassigns=1 \tracingmacros=1 \def\aaa{something} \def\bbb{else \aaa, else} \edef\ccc{third \bbb, level} ...
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Write to logfile

I want to write some things to the log file. What is the best practice for this? Is it \message{} or \typeout{} or what?
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Accessing to .log messages from LuaTeX. Is it possible?

Reading the question How to visualize the underfull box in final ouput PDF files I thought that it could be possible to use LuaTeX to intercept the "Underfull vbox" message and draw some kind of ...