[LyX/master] Clarify debug message

[Jürgen Spitzmüller]

Am Di., 1. März 2022 um 13:51 Uhr schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller <spitz at lyx.org
>:

> Am Di., 1. März 2022 um 04:19 Uhr schrieb Thibaut Cuvelier <
> tcuvelier at lyx.org>:
>
>> On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 03:58, Thibaut Cuvelier <tcuvelier at lyx.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 at 08:04, Jürgen Spitzmüller <spitz at lyx.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Am Sonntag, dem 27.02.2022 um 20:48 +0100 schrieb Thibaut Cuvelier:
>>>> > I'm doing this in the attached patches (also for HTML, XML being the
>>>> > common part between the two). I would like some feedback more
>>>> > specifically for the typing of the enum: as I could find, it's never
>>>> > sure that enums are coded with enough bits to add a code (there are
>>>> > already enough codes to fill 32 bits). I thus forced the types to be
>>>> > unsigned long long, to have 64 available bits
>>>> > (https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/types).
>>>> >
>>>> > I also tried to change as many occurrences I could find, but there
>>>> > were not many (or my searching skills are not on par).
>>>>
>>>> Thinking more about it, another option would be to rename LATEX to
>>>> something more generic (e.g. OUTFILE), maybe keeping "latex" as an
>>>> alias on the command line. After all, only one of these is used at a
>>>> given time, and depending on the output chain, it might not even be
>>>> clear which one. Also, we do not have a PLAINTEXT mode.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What do you think about this new iteration?
>>>
>>
>> I forgot to include the changes to debug.cpp in the previous patch, here
>> is a new complete patch.
>>
>
> Looks good. I would probably rephrase the help text as "Output source file
> generation/processing"
>

... and add an alias "latex" for backwards compatibility, like we have for
"any" and "all".

Jürgen


>
> Thanks,
> Jürgen
>
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