Tired of pdftex (or pdflatex) choking your stdout with what is apparently garbage?
Finding it difficult to spot errors/warnings among screenfuls of log messages by pdftex?
TeX-filter is here to help!
Just replace
pdftex file.tex
with
pdftex -halt-on-error -cnf-line "max_print_line = 100000" file.tex | ./tex-filter.py
TeX-filter works by applying many filters to the input.
You can control the set of filters to apply using command-line options.
See ./tex-filter.py --help for details.
If you hate running long commands, add this to your bashrc/bash_profile:
alias mypdflatex='pdflatex -cnf-line "max_print_line = 10000" -halt-on-error'
Then you can simply run mypdflatex file.tex | ./tex-filter.py.
You can also use -interaction=nonstopmode instead of -halt-on-error.
TeX-filter requires python 2 or 3.