Re: yap error

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 8:05 AM, Evan Cooch <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not this time -- contained no information at all, which is why I didn't
> post anything.
>
> Point is now moot.
>

Not at all.  Think about the many other MiKTeX users who are going to
encounter the same issue today and will be goggling "yap internal error".

Your "solution" is not a good one.  The "internal error" message
is a bug in yap.  Using "yap --trace--<traceflags>" could have
provided information needed to fix the bug yesterday.

In fact, the bug appears to be caused by missing modes.mf,
provided by the metafont package.   Perhaps yap should revert
to dvips rendering if metafont is not available (in which case
it does not make sense to make the yap package depend on metafont).

Just because you aren't obliged to contribute financially to MiKTeX
doesn't free you of a moral obligation to the community.  A small
extra effort on your part could potentially save many others from
wasting time.


> On 11/09/2016 04:07 AM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> > Am Tue, 8 Nov 2016 10:53:22 -0500 schrieb Evan Cooch:
> >
> >> Sure, but when the error message is simply 'internal error', there
> >> isn't much to report that would be of value, is there? ;-)
> > The information "internal error" excludes some other possible error
> > messages (like e.g. a ghostscript error due to a wrong renderer
> > method).
> >
> >
>
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