On 10/25/2009 06:28 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote:
Richard Heck wrote:
Pavel will tell us
i had two things in mind
- how is the user going to discover the other ones. if he needs to go to the
configuration
in the pref's convertor pane then god bless him. its such a unintuive beast
that we have
even bug number for it.
- i know one software, you wouldn't guess the name, which always knows better
than me
what i might want to have configured. if i tell him that i really want my
way he will
still tell me every 20 minutes i should do something with it. so i spend
next ten minutes
to find some deeper level setting which will make him shut up his mouth.
then i restart
and the issue is back :) once i feel some automatical care is entering in
the name of
users who are unable to understand the difference between ps2pdf and
pdflatex i get bit
nervous.
Yes, we all agree about that. Certainly we don't want to make things
hard for power users (=us!). But I think that there must be a reasonable
compromise here somewhere: To make choosing one or more converters
easier, while letting people know there are choices to be made, and
having a reasonable set of defaults. Remember that, as things are now,
the order in which things appear in configure.py determines which
converter is chosen, and selecting a new one---let alone two---is in
some cases very difficult, if the command line is at all complicated. So
having some default that we choose isn't a change. Making it easier to
choose a different one, or more than one, is.
It seems to me that a lot of the "heat" in this discussion has to do
with defaults. I'm guessing that if I were to propose a patch that made
us check for htlatex first and elyxer second, it'd cause a lot of
"discussion". I won't even ask why we do it as we do.
rh
