Uwe, these are general drawbacks of the external template. I cannot do anything about it (unless there's a general combined PDFLaTEX/LaTEX Format I've overlooked).
Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Hello Jürgen, > > I tested out your new pdfpages support and found the following issues: > > - In the options tab the default is LaTeX and not PDFLaTeX. Therefore one > often inserts the options to the wrong place. It would be better when the > default is PDFLaTeX AFAICS we cannot set a default. It's just inserted alphabetically to the combo, and the first item is chosen (that's why I added a hint to select "PDFLaTeX" in the description window). > - Inserting pdfpages options to LaTeX is senseless because it promise a > feature that is not available with LaTeX but only with PDFLaTeX. Therefore > I suggest to remove "LaTeX" from the options combobox when the External > inset is pdfpages. It's also available with VTeX that relies on the LaTeX, not the PDFLaTeX format, AFAIK. Also, there's this feature: "When producing DVI output pdfpages cannot insert pages of a PDF documents. But instead of interrupting execution pdfpages will insert empty pages. This feature is important when using packages like pst-pdf, which need to produce DVI output at the first run." So it's not senseless. > - The pdfpages settings are lost when exporting the document to LaTeX. You > can see this also when looking at View -> Source. They are only exported, > when the options are inserted to "LaTeX" but not when to "PDFLaTeX". But as > said above, LaTeX cannot handle pdfpages stuff. You have to export as LaTeX (pdflatex). Maybe View->Source should have a toggle to also view pdflatex output. > (Theses issues are the same for the movie15 support you plan to add to LyX > as also only PDFLaTeX can handle movies.) Sure. Jürgen > regards Uwe
