On 04/10/2014 3:23 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
I understand your argument, Stefano. It is a reasonable one and also a common one. For example, if you have a deadline to meet and a certain error that you think might not even affect the output of the PDF (and even if there is a chance, you could proof check the PDF manually), you just want your PDF and don't have time to think about fixing a possibly minor error. However, I think this is a feature request and not a bug. You might want to open a trac ticket because this type of conversation comes up from time to time and is likely to come up very often in 2.2 if we start stopping compilation when BibTeX errors occur (see http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2757). Input from your side of the debate is important since we don't have any developer currently defending that (popular) feature request and it is important to understand and try to accommodate all workflows.
FWIW I also think we should have a compilation mode which keeps going as far as possible. Of course, it would be a opt-in setting (could be a dialog asking to continue in the GUI and a --force option on the command line).
Cheers, Julien
