On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 07:50:31PM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2016-02-27, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:35:13AM +0000, Guenter Milde wrote: > >> On 2016-02-26, Kornel Benko wrote: > > >> I insisted on a "hand export" as a means to get a helpfull error report. > >> Just saying: "export fails" is no starting point for an investigation. > > >> Unfortunately, > > >> * the tests cannot tell more > >> * the tests use "hidden" replacements that you need to recreate when > >> exporting "by hand". > > >> This leads to many frustration and misunderstandings, so I hope for > >> improvement. > > > And from what I understand, the improvement you suggest is: > > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9744 > > * A first step is is to use the first half of the suggested fixes there > (storing of Unicode and TeX font setting in the lyx file) to replace > the "hidden" font replacement in the test scripts with a font setting > in the source document. > > Then you still need to manually set "use non-TeX fonts", but no longer > guess which font is actually used in the tests. > > * A proper fix would be to fix Ticket #9931 (command line option to > use/keep specified tempdir) and use this in the test scripts, so that > the test would not just say: "there is an error" but also log the > actuall reason for this error.
Makes sense. These improvements would be nice. Scott
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