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Re: Failure in html output - Reference to nonexistent nodes
From: |
Patrice Dumas |
Subject: |
Re: Failure in html output - Reference to nonexistent nodes |
Date: |
Sat, 14 Nov 2020 16:09:14 +0100 |
On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 03:13:27PM +0100, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> Some time ago I discussed the problem that calling a reference
> to a nonexistent node when generating .info files.
>
> When outputting html, reference to nonexistent node also gives a
> problem.
>
> @ref reference to nonexistent node `igc03--Sicl--CircAmRg'
That seems to be a good thing to me, this is an clearly an error.
> Problem is aggravated because the failure stops the
> generation of any files.
>
> When using texi2pdf, one gets in the output pdf document
>
> <undefined> [igc03–Sicl–CircAmRg], page <undefined>,
>
> This is much better than not generating any output.
My wild guess is that opinions are probably divided on that matter.
But there is a possibility with texi2any to generate input even in case
of errors, with the option --force. The option --error-limit may also be
of use in that context. There is also --no-warn that an be used to
silence the warnings.
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Pat