On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 12:54 PM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:50 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>>> 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: >>> >>>>>> 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). >>> >>> LaTeX errors? Strange, for me if my document has LaTeX errors and LyX >>> catches them by parsing the log, I do not get a PDF. I get the "LaTeX >>> Errors" dialog. You get the PDF and the "LaTeX Errors" dialog? Can you >>> send an example .lyx file that does this for you? >>> >> No, nothing handy. From memory, the exact use case is that I have a >> document that compiles and I have a PDF displayed. Then I modify the >> document, introduce something that will generate an error (perhaps on >> 2nd pass), and compile from LyX: at one point the document compilation >> will result in error, but the PDF file shall be reloaded from disk in >> the PDF viewer (i.e. the PDF will appear even if compilation errors >> out). This will NOT work however if the PDF viewer was closed in >> between: an error will mean that the PDF viewer won't be called. >> >> Liviu > > Ah, that makes sense. Yes, you are exactly right about what's going > on. This means that we already have an inconsistency in LyX: either we > should not modify the PDF in the case of an error (e.g. use a > temporary file and only rename if their is no error) or we should > always show the PDF in the case of an error. It should be the same > behavior for reload and view, in my opinion. And it seems to me that > Enrico's preference is the most sensible: always show the PDF if there > is one. > Agreed: always PDF...
> However, do we want a warning + PDF or an error + PDF? I think an > error + PDF makes more sense. Similarly, on the command line, lyx -e > pdf2 myfile.lyx in my opinion should have a non-zero exit code. I > suppose it should also produce a PDF if possible. > ...and an error message, explaining user that even if PDF showed up, something is very wrong and they need to hunt that down. Liviu > 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
