On May 7, 2010, at 5:30, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > 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).
My apologies for that, I had a bad day yesterday. > > 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. But in the previous messages it was explained where the log can be found and can't be found. > 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. > I really don't like to get that log in the main preview window, especially there. That change was also done for a reason, even though I don't remember all the details. Rather remove the in-window preview. But then people will keep complaining again. > > [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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
