It worries me when no one here responds to a good question.
(In fact, Andre' Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> chimed
in to second the motion, but no one coding has addressed the issue).
1.04pre2 still fails correctly to look at included or input files to
determine whether they've been changed, and therefore whether to rerun
LaTeX upon an update Postscript or dvi command.
I, for one, do not understand the point of update "intelligence". If I
want to export .dvi or .ps files, ok -- *then* maybe you can come up with a
good reason to skip running LaTeX. For example, you may have generated
temporary .dvi's or .ps's for previewing, and want to genuinely export
them without rerunning LaTeX.
But why in the world would you want to intercept, and override, the
update postscript or dvi commands? At best, you're just rewriting the
same temporary file you wrote out in a previous update. I suppose maybe
you exported before, and now you want to preview? But that can't happen
very often.
Again, without working algorithms for detecting changes to included or
input files, you require the user to change *actual* text in the document
-- meaning the introduction of errors -- just to get an updated preview.
Which is absurd.
I'd prefer that I could turn intelligence OFF, and have LyX *always* rerun
LaTeX. But I suppose if someone want to go through the hoops of actually
fixing the intelligent algorithm ...
Please confirm that is not an issue you're all leaving for 1.1!
--
-lsm
