On 17 November 2015 at 00:51, Hans Hagen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/17/2015 1:35 AM, David Carlisle wrote: > >> ! ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced! >> >> so no ? prompt or recovery, it just stops. > > > in fact such errors being fatal is true for most backend related errors > which normally are not recoverable (and seldom used by users) ... in the > current version errors and warnings are at least now all using the same > methods (so we have tex errors, with this prompt, backend/lua warnings and > tex/backend/lua errors where the later quits the run (as one has to fix > something fundamental) > > Hans
hmm at that point it's just expansion in an edef so not really expecting to get any "back end" interaction at all, and certainly not a fatal error. David
