On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 04:09:14PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 03:13:27PM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote: > > Some time ago I discussed the problem that calling a reference > > to a nonexistent node when generating .info files. > > > > When outputting html, reference to nonexistent node also gives a > > problem. > > > > @ref reference to nonexistent node `igc03--Sicl--CircAmRg' > > That seems to be a good thing to me, this is an clearly an error. > > > Problem is aggravated because the failure stops the > > generation of any files. > > > > When using texi2pdf, one gets in the output pdf document > > > > <undefined> [igc03–Sicl–CircAmRg], page <undefined>, > > > > This is much better than not generating any output. > > My wild guess is that opinions are probably divided on that matter. > > But there is a possibility with texi2any to generate input even in case > of errors, with the option --force. The option --error-limit may also be > of use in that context. There is also --no-warn that an be used to > silence the warnings.
Another possibility is to put @novalidate in the document.