Reference:Text Output Options - Revision history

Clipka: Indexentries fix

2016-12-16T15:06:20Z

Indexentries fix

2016-12-16T12:53:40Z

added tag admonishment

2016-12-15T21:49:56Z

moved indexentries

2016-05-03T23:29:49Z

indexentry fix

2013-02-11T04:00:55Z

Add indexentry for +GP

2013-02-10T12:47:29Z

typo

2013-02-10T10:50:13Z

Directing Text Streams to Files

2013-02-09T20:26:46Z

addition

2012-07-17T18:09:31Z

1 revision: underscore link repair

2012-07-12T09:25:35Z

still testing that theory

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 several files. This section details the options which give you control over
 text output.</p>
 ==Text Streams==
 {{#indexentry:streams}}
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 <p class="Note"><strong>Note:</strong> These options only take effect after the INI file has been read. An error in the INI file causes other options <em>not</em> to take effect because reading of the INI file is aborted prematurely.</p>
 {{#indexentry:redirecting stream output}}
 {{#indexentry:streams, redirecting}}
 <table width="100%" class="option-list">
 <tr>
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 other levels are reserved and should not be specified.</p>
 {{#indexentry:Options, help screen}}
 <table width="100%" class="option-list">
 <tr>

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 ==Text Streams==
 {{#indexentry:streams}}
 {{#indexentry:text streams}}
 {{#indexentry:output, streams}}
 <p>There are seven distinct text streams that POV-Ray uses for output. On

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 several files. This section details the options which give you control over
 text output.</p>
 {{#indexentry:streams}}
 {{#indexentry:text streams}}
 {{#indexentry:output, streams}}
 <p>There are seven distinct text streams that POV-Ray uses for output. On
 some versions each stream is designated by a particular color. Text from

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 several files. This section details the options which give you control over
 text output.</p>
-{{#indexentry:streams|text streams|output, streams}}
+{{#indexentry:streams}}
 ==Text Streams==
 <p>There are seven distinct text streams that POV-Ray uses for output. On
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 <p class="Note"><strong>Note:</strong> These options only take effect after the INI file has been read. An error in the INI file causes other options <em>not</em> to take effect because reading of the INI file is aborted prematurely.</p>
-{{#indexentry:redirecting stream output|streams, redirecting}}
+{{#indexentry:redirecting stream output}}
 ==Directing Text Streams to Files==
 <table width="100%" class="option-list">

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 <tr>
-<td><code>+GP</code></td>
+<td><code>+GP</code>{{#indexentry:+gp}}</td>
 <td>Same as <code>Append_File=true</code></td>
 </tr>

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 </p>
-<p class="Note"><strong>Note:</strong> These options only take effect after the INI file has been read. An error in the INI file causes other options <em>not</em> to take effect because reading of the INI file is aborted prematurely. Additionally, specifying <code>Append_File=false</code> is only useful it it was previously turned
+<p class="Note"><strong>Note:</strong> These options only take effect after the INI file has been read. An error in the INI file causes other options <em>not</em> to take effect because reading of the INI file is aborted prematurely. Additionally, specifying <code>Append_File=false</code> is only useful if it was previously turned
 on in another INI file, as the <code>Append_File</code> setting is not applied until
 the streams are opened on render startup (i.e. after all INI files and command-line

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 <tr>
 <td><code>Append_File=true</code>{{#indexentry:Append_File, ini-option}}</td>
+<td>Enable appending to any files that the above streams are being directed to.</td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td><code>Append_File=false</code></td>
+<td>Turn off appending to streams.</td>
 </tr>
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 <td><code>+GP</code></td>
 <td>Same as <code>Append_File=true</code></td>
 </tr>
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 because POV-Ray will fail when it tries to open or close the same file
 twice.</p>
-<p>The <code>Append_File</code> option default is <em>off</em>, however it is automatically turned <em>on</em> for the second and subsequent frames of an animation; the first frame either overwrites or appends to the stream output file, depending on whether <code>Append_File=true</code> or <code>+GP</code> is present.</p>
-<p class="Note"><strong>Note:</strong> These options only take effect after the INI file has been read. An error in the INI file causes other options <em>not</em> to take effect because reading of the INI file is aborted prematurely.</p>
+<p>
 ==Warning Level==

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 <tr>
-<td><code>Render_File=</code>file</td>
+<td><code>Render_File=file</code></td>
 <td>Echo render info text to file</td>
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 <tr>
-<td><code>+GR</code>file</td>
+<td><code>+GRfile</code></td>
 <td>Both <code>Render_Console=On, Render_File=file</code></td>
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 <tr>
-<td><code>+GS</code>file</td>
+<td><code>+GSfile</code></td>
 <td>Both <code>Statistic_Console=On, Statistic_File=file</code></td>
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 <tr>
-<td><code>-GS</code>file</td>
+<td><code>-GSfile</code></td>
 <td>Both <code>Statistic_Console=Off, Statistic_File=file</code></td>
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 <td>Both <code>All_Console=Off, All_File=file</code></td>
 </tr>
 </table>
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 because POV-Ray will fail when it tries to open or close the same file
 twice.</p>
 <p class="Note"><strong>Note:</strong> These options only take effect after the INI file has been read. An error in the INI file causes other options <em>not</em> to take effect because reading of the INI file is aborted prematurely.</p>
 ==Warning Level==
 <table width="100%" class="option-list">

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 before any options or switches are read. Therefore you cannot use an option
 or switch to control it. There are switches which display the help screens.
-They are covered in section <!--<linkto "Help Screen Switches">Help Screen Switches</linkto>--->[[Reference:Text_Output_Options#Help_Screen_Switches|Help Screen Switches]].</p>
+They are covered in section <!--<linkto "Help Screen Switches">Help Screen Switches</linkto>--->[[Reference:Text Output Options#Help Screen Switches|Help Screen Switches]].</p>
 <p>
 <strong> Debug:</strong> This stream displays debugging messages. It was