Re: lilypond-book: ignoring LaTeX errors

[Mats Bengtsson]

If I were you, I would rather try to get rid of the LaTeX error message
instead of adding a cludge to lilypond-book.
Thanks for sharing your solution on the mailing list. I don't think the 
problem
is common enough to include your patch in the official releases, but if 
somebody
else hits upon the same problem, they can now find it in the mailing 
list archives.

   /Mats

Dmytro O. Redchuk wrote:
> Hello,
>
>    i've started to think about how good it could be to re-type one of
>    already prepared score brochures from musixtex to lilypond (A4, 40-50
>    pages).
>
>    So, i took the same tex source (with the same geometry) and tried to
>    replace some scores with lilypond made ones.
>
>    Mmm.. The problem is that lilypond-book stops if child process ("latex
>    $TEMP/some_temp_file.tex") returned non-zero. I needed other behaviour
>    (that errors didn't confuse resulting output), so i wrote a little
>    patch (sorry, again,-) to lilypond-book (attached). This possibility
>    (to ignore child process errors) provided by lilylib, i've not touched
>    it at all.
>
>    If there is no other (better) solution, it would be not too bad, i
>    guess, to add this possibility -- to ignore child latex return code --
>    to lilypond-book.
>
>    If there IS other (better) solution -- please, let me know :-)
>
> A lot of thanks,
>   
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --- lilypond-book.2.10.20.orig  2007-03-28 14:07:13 +0300
> +++ lilypond-book       2007-03-29 09:23:27 +0300
> @@ -167,6 +167,12 @@
>                    dest="create_pdf",
>                    help="Create PDF files for use with PDFTeX",
>                    default=False)
> +
> +    p.add_option ('--ignore-ltx-errors',
> +                  action="store_true",
> +                  dest="ignore_ltx_errors",
> +                  help="Ignore LaTeX subprocess errors",
> +                  default=False)
>      
>      p.add_option ('', '--psfonts', action="store_true", dest="psfonts",
>                    help=_ ('''extract all PostScript fonts into INPUT.psfonts 
> for LaTeX
> @@ -1511,7 +1517,10 @@
>      tmp_handle.write (latex_document)
>      tmp_handle.close ()
>      
> -    ly.system ('latex %s' % tmpfile, be_verbose=global_options.verbose)
> +    ly.system (
> +            'latex %s' % tmpfile, 
> +            be_verbose=global_options.verbose,
> +            ignore_error=global_options.ignore_ltx_errors )
>      parameter_string = open (logfile).read()
>      
>      os.unlink (tmpfile)
>   
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