On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 08:48:03PM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 09:09:51AM +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >>> Me neither but as I know basically nothing about LateX I'd like to >>> trigger someone else' interest. >>> >>>> But one of the original ideas >>>> was to have a small stand-alone tool that can be used to "use" .lyx >>>> files without access to a full-blown LyX installation. >>> I don't think this is a good enough reason. People are using lyx at the >>> command line for exporting. I am pretty sure they could do the same for >>> importing. Thanks to the no-gui/gui separation (we only load QtCore), >>> 'lyx -e' is pretty cheap nowadays, so could be 'lyx -i'. >> There is a problem as long as we instantiate a QApplication (as opposed >> to a QCoreApplication) on *nix as this requires a connection to a >> running X server which cannot be taken for granted in a pure batch >> mode operations... > > He he... but we don't instantiate neither of the two ;-) > > Hint: We don't to start the event loop for '-e'
Ah good. So there aren't many good arguments left I suppose... Andre'
