Hi there! Murat Yildizoglu wrote: > Concerning this point, could we have a preference somewhere for ignoring > them? I remarked in the previous beta (having tested yet the RC1) that even > if the PDF does compiles with these errors, Lyx does not show it. It would > be nice to preview the PDF nevertheless. > Concerning this point, could we have a preference somewhere for ignoring > them?
I just turned in my final thesis, completely written in LyX. I've got not much to complain - quite the opposite. LyX spared me a lot of hassle. More robustness against errors would nonetheless further enhance my enjoyment of LyX. I second the notion of a "ignore errors and show pdf nonetheless". Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > I am reluctant to do this. If bibtex reports an error, you should fix it. You > could make the same argument wrt LaTeX error. In many cases, a PDF would be > produced nonetheless, but a wrong one (the same applies to bibtex errors). Yes, sometimes the PDF would be "the wrong one". But imagine this case: My thesis had 4 chapters, and was made up from 6 documents (Master document+Appendix where 5. and 6.). Out of some reasons, the 4th chapter wouldn't compile alone, but ended with some or the other error message. If I tried to compile the master document, everything looked fine. Probably, with some work, I would've been able to repair the 4th chapter, so it would've compile alone. I didn't do that, because the time was pressing, but opened the master every time I worked at the 4th chapter and compiled that. It was a hassle. Yes, it is better to repair bugs instead of glossing them over, but I don't want to be forced to do that. Give the LyX-users the credit to know when they have to repair things, and when it's okay to gloss over them. (In my case, the error came from some wrongly put labels/cross references, I think. All I wanted to do was checking of my pictures looked right. For that, "the wrong pdf" would've been completely sufficient.) Greetings! Ph.