[ww-users] Latex batch mode

[Lee W. <wor...@gm...>]

By request, I'm trying a change in WorkingWiki's behaviour, by having it 
try to finish processing latex documents even if they have errors in 
them.  This only applies to creating pdf files, not to creating the HTML 
version of the document that you see in the wiki page (which is already 
error-tolerant).

This means that if your document has errors, you're more likely to get a 
pdf file and less likely to get an error report.  If the pdf file seems 
strange, you may want to look at the log file despite the lack of error 
report.

If you get messages like "make succeeded but did not produce 
my-thing.pdf" (or if anything else seems strange or wrong) please let me 
know and I'll try to improve the situation.

Thanks,
Lee

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Subject: [ workingwiki-Feature Requests-3297260 ] Latex batch mode
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:07:14 -0700
From: SourceForge.net <no...@so...>
To: SourceForge.net <no...@so...>

Feature Requests item #3297260, was opened at 2011-05-03 19:28
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Category: None
>Group: Refactored WorkingWiki
>Status: Closed
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Jonathan Dushoff (dushoff)
>Assigned to: Lee Worden (worden)
Summary: Latex batch mode

Initial Comment:
David Earn suggests that the wiki should do latex in batch mode by 
default.  This just means that it would try to produce PDF output even 
when encountering an error.  This could help in finding errors, I think, 
but I'm not sure how valuable it would be -- given that we already have 
the .xhtml version.


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>Comment By: Lee Worden (worden)
Date: 2011-08-08 15:07

Message:
OK, trying it out in r729.  I had to put -interaction=nonstopmode on the
command line to have it keep going to the end of the document, and put a -
sign in front of the command to have make ignore the error code that it
returns.  So we'll want to keep an eye out for 'make succeeded but did not
produce document.pdf'.  If that starts happening, please let me know and
I'll try to come up with a better kind of diagnostic output.

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