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Anecdotally, based on questions on tex.stackexchange.com, there are a lot of questions that come from people completely ignoring error messages.
by dhosek 5y ago
Anecdotally, based on questions on tex.stackexchange.com, there are a lot of questions that come from people completely ignoring error messages.
- geoduck14 5y agoI would be really interested in seeing data around this! Do you speak from anecdotal experience? Do you have any hard data (that you can share)?
- ectopod 5y ago>> Anecdotally, based on questions on tex.stackexchange.com ... > Do you speak from anecdotal experience? I think we can agree that people don't read things properly.
- dhosek 5y agoNot a chance. It would be a significant effort just to collect the data. I’m not interested enough to do it.
- mirker 5y agoLatex is my personal example of bad compiler messages, as well. The other day I added a duplicate bibtex entry and/or added two keys for the same entry. The error messages are a dump of the entire bibliography rather than a simple line number.
- dhosek 5y agoIn my LaTeX book, I have an appendix dedicated to offering up explanations of what’s really wrong for every error message. It’s kind of fun doing everything wrong n LaTeX to get at all these.