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In article <3psssh$mpt@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> deniz@atlas.ctr.columbia.edu (Deniz Akkus) writes:

>I am interested in using TeX, LateX, or Framemaker as a text formatter
>for overnight batch production of some reports.  

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>1. I know this can be done using TeX or LateX, but these are pretty
>garrulous for error messages and tend to produce an endless stream of
>error messages.  I don't know whether or not any add-ons or later
>versions exist that would make these programs more at home in a batch
>processing mode (returning error messages that could be handled from a
>program, or at least exiting gracefully)? 

TeX has a batch mode, which I tend to use even when I'm running it 
interactively. When in batch mode, TeX will run as far as it can get in a 
document, dumping all information to the logfile. It will return a non-zero
exit status (on Unix) iff there was an error. This is my script uses to
determine whether to delete the log file (on success) or to produce a
window displaying the log file (on failure). Presumably your installation
would print the output on success and log any failures.

I'm afraid I don't know about using any other text-processing programs in 
batch mode. TeX has replaced troff for me, and I don't yet need a replacement 
for TeX.

Hope this helps :)

James