On 09/08/2011 01:57 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: > On 08/09/2011 7:34 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: >> Hi, >> >> would it be possible to add to LyX the possibility to specify an >> explicit output file-name when exporting from the command-line to a >> different format ? >> >> Something along the line of: >> >> lyx -e latex -o /path/to/output.tex /path/to/input.lyx >> >> While writing scripts and automating conversions, I don't want the >> exported files to pollute the working folder, but rather I prefer to >> have control on where to place them (normally temporary or "output" >> folders). >> >> Thanks, >> >> T. >> > > Sure, it's possible, but nobody works on it. > > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/4501 > Presumably what is needed here is a "buffer-export-as" LFUN. But making this work naturally from the command line will be trickier than it looks. In effect, "-e pdf" is just shorthand for: -x "buffer-export pdf" so the -o switch comes too late to change the effect of -e. (Look at the code for easyParse in LyX.cpp). The easy thing to do would be to add a new switch, say, -E, which takes two arguments, and have that act as shorthand for: -x "buffer-export-as pdf /path/to/export.lyx"
Richard
