Download as latex has (non-critical) compile errors

[ivanistheone]

I downloaded a very simple Article (contains a single block of text, no images, no interactive, or anything fancy), see v1.AelWbQuHSmO3VWhgAZk2Gk6XWQ52.latex.zip

Then on compiling on Mac with pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live 2018), I saw the following errors:

pressing ENTER through them and the document compiled in the end, but most people might freak out about these errors and not know how to continue, so I'd recommend fixing them (and testing with MikTeX which is the commonly used TeX distribution by windowls people).

pro-tip: if you want to ignore all non-critical errors and make LaTeX very tolerant, you can add this to the document preamble and it will do it's best to compile the document even if it encounters errors:

\scrollmode
\nonstopmode

(generally not good move, since you will not get warnings/errors right away when you add errors, but good hack to avoid people filing issues ;)

[stevejpurves]

thanks for reporting this @ivanistheone.

I'm running with nonstopmode on via the command line while using xelatex for the build itself in testing, but adding that to the preamble would stop people's builds being interrupted at least 👍

Errors 1 & 2 look immediately solvable. The third issue is related to the minted package for code highlighting which we're including even though we don't have code included in your example. I think we can look at content based adding of packages so that it's only included when there are code blocks but some better info output advising of the dependency when there is code is probably needed.