On 09/09/2011 02:57 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote:
Il 09/09/2011 19:45, Tommaso Cucinotta ha scritto:
Il 09/09/2011 14:31, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes ha scritto:
Perosnally, I'd prefer to avoid this syntax of 'everything until the
end of line', and stick with the good old
-x "buffer-export latex \"/path/to/file name with space.tex\""
which LyX should be able to handle transparently with a few changes.
How would you like to use that from the mini-command-buffer ?
Something like this ?
I also checked the front-end part by Guenter, and I have to say we had
that potential issue
that
lyx -o path -e latex
would work, but
lyx -e latex -o path
would not.
So, in the end, I thought the best way to support this, given how the
command-line parser is currently structured, was through a dedicated
separate switch with 2 arguments:
lyx -E latex /path/dest.tex
or
lyx --export-to latex /path/to/dest.tex
This is implemented in the attached patch. Can I commit to trunk, or
do you have further comments ?
One very last remark: the only alternative I can actually think of, is
to have 2 possible formats for the "-e" argument: either a
format-name, or a filename with extension. In the latter case, the
export format would be inferred by extension. That would mean:
lyx -e /path/to/myfile.tex mydoc.lyx
I have to admit I used myself multiple times exactly this syntax by
mistake in writing Makefiles, then I switched to the right syntax
after seeing it wasn't working. Of course, in case of multiple formats
with the same extension, this type of syntax would have to prefer one
export type over another.
At present, the argument to -e is a format, and could be pdf2, pdf3,
etc. You can't infer that from the extension.
Richard
