Should be able to disable "2nd class" outputs in admin settings

[hwine]

At the moment, PDF and ePub formats are "2nd class" outputs of the system, in that the author does not get notified of production failures specific to those formats. (see, e.g. #1121 which impacted users as described in #1120)

Since lossless conversion to the 2nd class formats can't be guaranteed, an author may need to invest additional time to produce source that will convert cleanly. I think that choice should be up to the author, not a (hidden) cost of using read the docs.

Adding checkboxes to enable/disable production of these alternate formats to the administration page would be one way to implement.

[agjohnson]

I agree. I'm not sure of the statistics of the number of users producing pdf/epub output, but i think exposing these as options some how to the user would reduce confusion -- especially since pdf builds can be intermittent problematic in our build evironment.

We're trying to reduce the config options, as the user experience is awful, but this might be a large enough configuration option to warrant a UI element for configuration.

[tisdall]

@agjohnson it seems like pdf/epub are defaulted to on, so wouldn't it be all projects end up producing those? Or am I missing something?

[agjohnson]

@tisdall i suppose i meant using pdf output, this is the number I'm not sure of. You are correct that all projects default with pdf/epub output enabled.

[ericholscher]

Our builder code knows how build all the types separately. The main thing
we need is a UI for selecting them. A PR with this would definitely be
accepted. It's on our long list of things to do otherwise.

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Anthony [email protected] wrote:

@tisdall https://github.com/tisdall i suppose i meant using pdf
output, this is the number I'm not sure of. You are correct that all
projects default with pdf/epub output enabled.

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[gregmuellegger]

This is done with the merge of #1344.

[tisdall]

@gregmuellegger, thank you!