context --nodummy works fine with my viewer, thanks!!
On Fri, 2021-01-01 at 11:10 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 12/31/2020 8:31 PM, Johann Birnick wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > in my setup I constantly have a pdf viewer open showing the output of > > context. > > When I recompile the viewer updates. > > > > Now if there is an error, the document fails to compile, of course. > > Previously > > the pdf file just remainded untouched, nice. But now with LMTX, the pdf will > > be > > overwritten with a pdf just saying "error". This makes my pdf viewer crash! > > I can't work like this. > > > > So how to prevent this "error" page and just let context remain the pdf > > untouched if there is an error? > Actually the remaining file is not untouched when there is an error > halfway, so maybe your viewer didn't do anything when the xref etc was > missing and fonts were unresolved ... all depends on the viewer i guess > (after a pdf update the viewer has to reread the xref at least and then > all objects it has cached). > > Long ago I played with a temp file and renaming but that also was not > stable (at least not here). > > (for ways around: see other mails) > > Hans > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
