On 2009-10-25, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Pavel Sanda wrote: >>still i think its much more embarrassing situation to persuade your editor >> to really use what you have installed on purpose than to disable if >> something was installed not intentionally.
> Query the archieves. Many LyX users are confused by the fact that we provide > three different ways to get a PDF file. Still, we do provide these ways for a good reason: they have different strenghts and weaknesses and depending on your workflow and the actual document the one or another is best. > As long as you do not know the difference between the choices, the > choice is just irritating. You have to know quite a bit about the > converters to find the choice valuable. And then, enabling a given > converter is no big deal. It is. Installing 4 l*x2html converters (elyxer, html2latex, hevea, htlatex, say) is a matter of one `apt-get` command. Learning how to configure them for latex, creating 4 html file formats, ... is hard work and I shun it if I just want to know which will bring the best result for my document. >> i was speaking about html converters. > I don't see why HTML converters are to be treated differently. For me, > bibliography converters are _much_ more important than HTML converters. > OTOH I have a whole lot of HTML converters installed simply because I > have a TeXLive full install. I do not use a single of them. > You see how subjective this question is? This is why I add my subjective opinion on this matter. I would like to have the choice back (like it was in the old days, LyX 1.4 or so). Therfore I hope the work in the pipeline will manifest into a usable state soon. Günter
