On 10/06/2011 04:42 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > Il 06/10/2011 21:02, Richard Heck ha scritto: >> On 10/06/2011 02:27 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: >>> On 05/10/2011 11:49 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: >>>> lyx -c source.svg -o dest.eps # convert arbitrary formats >>>> (extension-based format detection for output) >>>> lyx -c -i svg source.svg -e eps -o dest.eps # explicitly set the input >>>> and output formats >>>> >> I haven't been following this closely, but I'm puzzled why LyX should >> act >> as a generic converter. This looks like asking for trouble when people >> don't get the right results. > > It already knows how to make a number of conversions. Just make > this capability reusable from the outside. Simply Unix. For example, > this can be used when invoking the external elyxer tool, making it > capable of all the conversions that LyX can handle. > If by chance a user wants to waste time creating an amazing > lyxrc.default configuration that can handle nearly any possible > conversion that is possible in this world, then drop it on the wiki > and let users use it. > > I'm sure you have some concrete "trouble scenario" in your > mind. Please, explicit it. > The only scenario I have in mind is users complaining when such things fail and it's got nothing to do with LyX but instead because some external converter has failed. Or we start having weird crashes. Or who knows what.
It seems almost anti-Unix to me. Unix is about one tool doing one thing well. This is about making LyX do something totally unrelated, like convert svg to png or whatever. Richard
