Part of my attempt to make some settings customizable on a per-document basis is the plan to allow this also for tools such as bibtex and the index processor. There are many use cases for this:
* you might want to use a different program for a specific document (bibtex8 or biber for documents using biblatex, xindy instead of makeindex for one specific document) * you might want to set specific program options for a specific document (e.g. --min-crossrefs with bibtex, --csfile with bibtex8, -s <stylefile> with makeindex, -m <modules> with xindy) This all depends on the document, so the current prefs-only solution is highly unsatisfactory. However, I don't know how to implement this properly. More precisely, I have security concerns. At first, I just wanted to implement it via "bibtex" and "makeindex" buffer params, that would just override the respective RCs. However, what if someone sends me a LyX file which has "rm -f ~ ; bibtex" as a bibtex converter? Next, I thought about providing a list of predefined apps (the apps found by configure, for that matter), let the user only chose one of these and let him only specify the options. But then, I'm sure there are also ways to launch evil programs that way (e.g., "$$i ; rm -f ~ ; bibtex"). Of course, we could just issue a (toggleable) warning if a per-document app is about to be launched, but is that enough? Any ideas? Jürgen
