On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 12:57:24PM -0500, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: >>> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Georg Baum >>> >>> >> IMHO it can be made an error right away. >>> > >>> > I would be OK with making it an error right away. The argument for >>> > first making it a warning is that from the user perspective, the >>> > documents stop compiling. We had a similar discussion with BibTeX. We >>> > currently do not report BibTeX errors. Jurgen implemented support for >>> > reporting errors (7e188c51) but had to revert (148317b6) because of >>> > user complaints. >>> >>> Does anyone else have an opinion on this? I am fine either way. At >>> first I assumed that because of the BibTeX issue we should be >>> consistent with our decision on that. But perhaps this is different in >>> some way? >> >> My vote is for a warning and an output produced in any case. >> If latex produces an output, that output has to be shown, IMO. >> Having the possibility of looking at the output may be of great >> help to pinpoint problems. > > Interesting idea. If we do this, we should do it for all errors. With > I would second this. Actually, it seems to me that this is what LyX has been doing for quite some time, as somewhat often I get errors but a PDF does output (sometimes with useful clues on what really went wrong, and pointers on how to fix it).
Regards, Liviu PS It is true that some other times it is confusing, so perhaps a message from LyX: "LaTeX compilation ended up with errors, but a PDF has nevertheless been produced. " Or something along these lines... > this commit I'm just proposing to (either directly or in a future > version) add NONZERO_ERROR to be treated as other errors (by adding > NONZERO_ERROR to ERRORS = TEX_ERROR + LATEX_ERROR in LaTeX.h). As for > how we handle ERRORS, we could do what you suggest and check whether a > PDF was created. > > Scott -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
