Hello,
There is a feature change that I would like to suggest, comments are asked
for if this will improve or reduce from LyX.
LyX has the ability to monitor changed files, even those files that are
not directly generated by LyX, say for example a class file, if it gets
installed in between latex file generations, LyX will learn about it and
check for its status. If any file that the latex file depends on is
changed the latex will be redone.
I found this when I wrote a TeXdraw macro in an external file (a global
macro and not inside LyX's preamable). I would change the macro file and
hit preview postscript in LyX, and hoped for it to get my change. It
didnt.
The reason appears to be that when you do View postscript, if the lyx
buffer hasnt changed it will not recreate the latex file and so will not
detect that a file that is dependend on has changed. So my feature change
is to not check if the buffer has changed but rather let LaTeX generation
to check and redo all of its things, its smart enough to handle it rather
fast (or so I believe, I'm not too much into the code of LyX yet).
The scenario I described is not so common, but consider changing a bibtex
file outside of lyx, this is a more common thing that will get this
benefit (or so I believe from what I remember).
To your consideration.
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