On May 6, 2010, at 2:25 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

> On May 6, 2010, at 23:05, Themis Matsoukas wrote:
> 
>> On May 6, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
>> 
>>> Including a naked "&" in a field is indeed an error for TeX. The Log in the 
>>> preview will also tell you this.
>> 
>> I guess you did not understand that the & was a test to reproduce the error 
>> message.
>> 
>>> If you don't understand that this is wrong in TeX you probably should not 
>>> even be using the TeX preview.
>> 
>> Thank you for the kind suggestion. 
>> 
>> Themis  
> 
> Than what's your point?

I believe the secondary point is that your comment seems needlessly snide.  For 
the record, Themis has been using BibDesk for a long time; he is one of the few 
who actually donated to the project [1], and has also been instrumental in 
reproducing some memorable bugs (e.g., [2] & [3] come to mind).

The original point he demonstrated is that there's no way to debug failures of 
the TeX preview in the main window, unless you're aware of the preview panel.  
It looks like this commit removed display of the log/debug info in the PDF view 
when no PDF was produced:

http://bibdesk.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bibdesk/trunk/bibdesk/BDSKPreviewer.m?r1=9360&r2=9447

Maybe reverting that would help people figure out that TeX itself failed, if 
they're using that preview in the main window.



[1] https://sourceforge.net/project/project_donations.php?group_id=61487
[2] 
http://bibdesk.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/bibdesk/trunk/bibdesk/BDSKConverter.m?r1=359&r2=383
[3] 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1097306&group_id=61487&atid=497423




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