How to print the content of a macro to the terminal

Question

I am writing letters of application to various companies and to speed up the process I have few macros defined in my .tex file i.e.

\def\company{ Company name ABCDEF } 

I know that one can do

\typeout{\company}

and this will echo the macro to the .log file and to the console output, but somehow this didn't produce any output to the terminal.

For "compiling" the .tex file I use pdflatex

Since it is much easier I would like to see the output in my compile console. I usually use kile (linux) and TeXnicCenter (windows). Both of them produce output on the screen and it would be very helpful to see the content of the macros. It would be even greater if those messages are in red color.

Thank you for your help

Answer 1

This works for me:

\documentclass{article}



\gdef\company{ Company name ABCDEF } 

\begin{document}
\typeout{\company}


\end{document}

Answer 2

\documentclass{article}
\gdef\company{ Company name ABCDEF } 
\begin{document}

    \show\company

    \typeout{Makroinhalt: \company}

\end{document}

Then run the document with pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode <file> and you'll get on the terminal:

voss@shania:~> pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode zz
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./zz.tex
LaTeX2e <2016/02/01>
Babel <3.9q> and hyphenation patterns for 81 language(s) loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (./zz.aux)
> \company=macro:
-> Company name ABCDEF .
l.5     \show\company

Makroinhalt:  Company name ABCDEF 
(./zz.aux) )
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Transcript written on zz.log.