Re: [ww-users] oops

[Peter L. R. <pl...@st...>]

Ooops, meant to reply to the list earlier.

> seems to me that if latex and latexml accept png and jpg files I should  
> strive to have makefile rules that don't make you jump through  
> unnecessary hoops
>
>> I have not committed the change you mention.  Er, I appreciate the work,
>> but perhaps you were too hasty?  It seems to me that it is better to
>> have changes in figures noticed than the alternative?  Either way we go,
>> I forsee some documentation.
>
> I decided it's better to miss some dependencies sometimes than to  
> completely crash and refuse to make the output sometimes - the latter  
> condition can hurt people when they're on a paper submission deadline  
> and the like.  So I made the choice independently of whether it actually  
> relates to the problem you had...

I agree; but I can also imagine the case when, under a deadline, someone
has to figure out why their figure isn't updating in their paper.  The
unnecessary hoops are better, in that case, because they give an error
message, and tell you what to do to fix it, even if it is annoying.

But, perhaps Jonathan's (magic) solution will work?  

-p