On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On 09/17/2014 03:02 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
>>
>> Are there any ideas for the message? Without thinking much, I will throw
>> out: "xyz finished with an error. This was not previously reported in LyX so
>> compilation is allowed to continue, but starting with LyX 2.2.0 this warning
>> message will become an error and compilation will stop so that the user
>> knows to fix the issue causing the error."
>
>
> Minor tweaking:
>
> The external program
>     XYZ [[ probably on its own line, since these commands can be long ]]
> finished with an error. Compilation will be [[ has been ?? I guess this
> depends when the warning is issued. ]] allowed to continue, but starting
> with LyX 2.2.0 this warning message will become an error and compilation
> will stop.
>
> I don't think we need to explain in the dialog why that is. Though we could
> add something like: We suggest you find the cause of the error.

Sounds good.

> A few questions: Can this only happen during compilation? Or could it happen
> during other sorts of export? Should that word be changed? Could it, in
> particular, happen during compilation of instant preview? I don't use that,
> but I can imagine it getting extremely annoying in this case to get that
> message, especially if it were caused by something in the preamble that was
> included in every single case. So, if that is an issue, perhaps we should
> disable the error for preview.

Good point. I will test this.

Scott

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