Joost Verburg wrote: > Enrico Forestieri wrote: >> Joost, given that the preferences file takes precedence, why don't >> simply modify configure.py such that when a preferences file does >> not already exists, on Windows it provides a default one with a single >> appropriate \format entry for pdf? > > In my opinion, the new patch I provided is a much better solution. There > won't be any hacks in configure.py and the Windows installer will write > it's settings to lyxrc.dist.
Your simple patch is IMO a hack. Nobody would understand what the ! means. What is wrong with the $$s solution I proposed? If you really want to be able to specify arbitrary viewers in configure.py that override the auto stuff then the correct solution would be to introduce a new format flag noautoviewer (and noautoeditor), but IMO this is wrong. Or maybe instead of the flag one could use a viewer like "noauto C:\Programs\foo\bar.exe" which would mean that C:\Programs\foo\bar.exe is the viewer and overrides the auto setttings. Overriding the auto stuff does only make sense IMO for special helper programs that we distribute ourselves, so I really think the solution with $$s is the best one. Georg
