[tex-live] Bug in TexLive 2005 and 2007? Non-writable aux-file
Philip & Le Khanh
Philip-and-LeKhanh at Royal-Tunbridge-Wells.Org
Sat Mar 10 12:10:14 CET 2007
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>>
>> This is basically a single application on a single operating system
>> phenomenon (Acrobat reader on Windows).
>
> Near everybody in the real world out there uses Windows (either
> by choice or because of policy decisions), and almost all of those
> users use Acrobat reader to look at PDFs.
Hear hear.
>
> The Reader is a badly designed program, but unless you know of an
> alternative that can display PDFs with the same quality and same
> extensive feature set, we are stuck with it.
Even if there were/is an alternative, few will choose to
use it. PDF /is/ Adobe, so the reader of choice is Adobe's
reader.
> Somebody on tex-implementors suggested an Abort/Retry/Fail approach
> like DOS used to have, and that makes sense to me. Definately on
> Windows, but I would like to have that as well (and I am on linux).
I meant to respond to that (it was Fabrice's suggestion -- see below) :
I would not like the current behaviout to change in such a dramatic way
(two answers needed where one is currently sufficient), but I can see
the benefit in adding new primitives to e-TeX to specify how such errors
are to be handled by default, e.g.,
\onopeninerror {}
\onopenouterror {}
\onreaderror {}
\onwriteerror {}
\oninputerror {}
and so on ...
** Phil.
--------
FP wrote :
> Maybe another option could be to change the message for something like :
>
> I can't find your file. Please chose :
> 1 to retry
> 2 to type another filename
> 3 to abort
>
> Which would be clear for everybody.
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