Re: Problem with showing paths

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 9:52 AM Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> > The problem is the way the lines in the output of "show" are broken:
> > The lines are fairly short (max. 80 characters, including the
> > newline) and the x- and y-coordinates of the points can be broken
> > across two lines, which makes parsing unnecessarily difficult.  [...]
> >
> > Is there anyway to fix this?
>
> Maybe you can send the output to the log file instead, using the
> `max_print_line=<length>` environment variable?  We use this in
> LilyPond.
>

uh I missed it...thank you. Also:
mpost.w:  options->error_line        = setup_var (79,"error_line",nokpse);
mpost.w:  options->half_error_line   = setup_var
(50,"half_error_line",nokpse);
mpost.w:  options->max_print_line    = setup_var
(100,"max_print_line",nokpse);

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luigi

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