Test entering an endless loop in latex processing

Kornel Benko kornel at lyx.org
Sat Aug 22 12:34:59 UTC 2020


Am Sat, 22 Aug 2020 14:25:53 +0200
schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller <spitz at lyx.org>:

> Am Samstag, den 22.08.2020, 14:04 +0200 schrieb Kornel Benko:
> > The other thing is the unspecified sequence of documentclass options.
> > We have to expect different outcome depending on the phase of moon.  
> 
> The order really should not matter. And as you demonstrated, the
> sequence also differs for preamble definitions.
> 
> > Maybe, a routine returning always the same sequence is not a bad
> > idea.
> > Something like a language priority comes in mind.
> > (In our case arabi and farsi have the priority 1, hebrew 2 and the
> > rest 0)  
> 
> This looks like overkill just to solve a bug in one language definition
> file.
> 
> Of course the easiest way to have a stable order would be to just order
> them alphabetically (which would incidentally even solve the hebrew
> problem). 
> 
> However, this all does not help if one of the conflicting languages is
> the main language (which has to come last in any event).
> 
> Jürgen

OK. In the mean time, (I don't expect a solution in the near future) we should use
your patch. Just my 2c.

	Kornel
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