Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:

>> Or we could add subnames like pdf:pdlatex or pdf:ps2pdf that make it
>> clear (for LyX) that these are subtypes of a same format. I am not sure
>> yet how this information could be used, but I feel it is needed.
> 
> This would at least be clearer than pdf2. Maybe we can also improve the
> GUI. Renaming the "Short Name" to "Identifier" and adding a tooltip that
> this identifier has to be unique would probably already avois some
> confusion.

Also, the dialog could propose such a shortname, using a routine such as

toLower(extension) + ":" + toLower(converter) [+ ++int]

Jürgen


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