Request for reduced information verbosity level/flag about dvisvgm HOT 6 CLOSED

With the current options it's not possible to only print the filename, unfortunately, but it shouldn't be too complicated to add this functionality. To keep compatibility with previous versions, it's probably not a good idea to introduce a separate verbosity flag for the filename.
Maybe I could add a new option --message to print arbitrary user messages that may contain the macros already evaluated by special dvisvgm:message. I just have to add macro svgfile. Then you could call dvisvgm with -v3 --message "Output file: {?svgfile}" or something like that.

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As proposed above, I've added option --message that allows you to output your own message text after creating an SVG file. It will be available as of the next version 3.2. If you want to use it in your scripts, you probably need to check the available dvisvgm version to prevent errors.

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Thanks Martin!

I've been wondering if this could be done in a backwards-compatible way, but that does seem like a bit of a stretch (I guess depending on the implementation a new verbosity number could maybe work).

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I thought about assigning the filename output to its own verbosity flag, but decided against it because you also needed to adapt the verbosity levels depending on the dvisvgm version, e.g. 7 for versions < 3.2. and 11 for the newer ones. To me, the current, more generic way is more flexible and might support further needs of other users without having to introduce many special verbosity flags.

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Makes sense, thanks again!

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You're welcome.

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