On Jan 8, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Peter Kümmel wrote:
Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
"Peter" == Peter Kümmel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
There's a bug report about this where it is additionally requested
to be able to continue the work in LyX while the export is
running:
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=412
Peter> Maybe we should start thinking about some multithreading....
Why would we need that? We can handle asynchronous process pretty
well
with graphics.
And what happens if you modify something while it is exporting
exactly
the same thing??
Maybe a nice progress support would be enough. And make export
faster,
of course.
What is slow is LateX compilation, not LyX export to LateX. It
should be
OK to allow editing while the LateX file is compiled.
I've been faking this for several years using LyX. I create a new
file format (PDFLaTeX (Update)), with pdflatex specified as the
viewer. The converter from LaTeX to PDFLaTeX (Update) is "touch $$i",
with "latex" as the extra flag. It's worked like a charm in 1.4.x. In
1.5.0, it doesn't work, since the .pdf file gets created in the same
directory as the document, not the tmp directory.
Not that I'd recommend we do this as official practice, but it does
allow me to edit and typeset simultaneously with no problems.
Bennett
