Guenter Milde wrote: > 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.
But who knows that? As long as you don't, it's just 3 different ways to get a PDF, and people will just select the next one (most likely not the best one). BTW, I agree on the strengths and weaknesses. That's why I implemented in LyX 2.0 the possibility to define a specific default converter to a given document. You can use ps2pdf as default for your powerdot presentation and pdflatex to your beamer presentations. > > 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. How does this contradict with my proposal? On the contrary: all installed converters will (in contrast to the status quo) be preconfigured with what we think the best options are. They just won't be enabled by default. > >> 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. Could you ealborate on what "the old days" state was? Jürgen
