On 09/27/2011 05:27 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > > AFAICS, it doesn't find a direct converter from ODG to PNG, so it > gives up. So, my big question: > *) Does LyX embed any (even naive) algorithm for automatically finding > a "conversion path" from a format to another, > Yes. The "primitive" converters are used to define a graph. The nodes are formats; the edges are converters between formats. Then LyX does a breadth first search to find a path through this graph. That all happens in Graph.cpp.
The mystery is why the fall-back to convert isn't employed here. Richard
