LyX document gives LaTeX errors of file not found on master

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 10:09:51AM +0000, José Matos wrote:
> On Tue, 2024-02-13 at 21:45 -0500, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > I just happened to come across the following:
> > 
> >   https://github.com/georgid/PhDThesis/
> >  
> > To reproduce on master, clone the above, and open what I think is the
> > main LyX document:
> > 
> >   PhDThesis_Georgi_Knowledge_based_Lyrics_Tracking.lyx
> >  
> > On 2.3.x, the document compiles to PDF without error. Note that I
> > don't
> > have Helvetica so I replaced that with "default" in two instances.
> > 
> > When I compile on current master, I get the following as the first
> > error:
> > 
> >   ! LaTeX Error: File `../pypYIN/report/ISMIR_2017/note_bar_DBN.eps'
> > not found.
> > 
> > I don't have time to dig into this, and I understand if no one else
> > has
> > time to take a look.
> > 
> > Scott
> 
> I confirm what you get.
> 
> OTHO 2.4 is correct because that path is outside of the repo, I do not
> have that file.
> 
> 
> So the surprising part is why does 2.3 works?
> 
> Actually it does not work.
> 
> Using 2.3 we get an empty frame in the space where that graphics should
> be, with the file path displayed instead:
> ../pypYIN/report/ISMIR_2017/note_bar_DBN.eps
> 
> 2.4 is more strict and errors out.
> 
> So this is a different behaviour but not an error/bug of LyX 2.4.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to look into this, José! Indeed, sounds like 2.4 is much better behavior. I do wonder why there is no "Show output anyway" option available, but that's an evil option anyway.

Scott
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