Re: Lilypond error behaviour

[David Kastrup]

Noeck <address@hidden> writes:

> These two are often similar but not always.
> IMHO, it would make sense to consider both and have 3 categories:
> - warning: user, please look at this
> - error: this is severe, there is something definitely wrong, but
>   Lilypond did its very best to keep running
> - fatal error: this is severe and Lilypond could not rescue the
>   situation, nothing was produced

We are not talking about "nothing was produced" since LilyPond can't
change the past.  The demand rather boils down to "if LilyPond has
already successfully produced anything, that should not be left
available and the PDF should not be completed properly."

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David Kastrup