On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Jean-Pierre Chrétien <jeanpierre.chret...@free.fr> wrote: > Le 20/01/2013 19:12, Scott Kostyshak a écrit : > >> The exported file type is shown where you suggest, but I think the >> Short Name is what LyX understands and needs. You can test this out. >> If you want to export to PDF (pdflatex), the following does not work: >> $ lyx -e "PDF (pdflatex)" example.lyx >> The following does: >> $ lyx -e pdf2 example.lyx >> >> Maybe the message needs clarification? You could say something like >> <<To export to the file format shown in the field "Format", you can >> pass LyX's name for that format, found in "short name".>> > > > You're right of course, I use frequentley export -e pdf myself, I should > have remembered. > > What do you think of > \t-e [--export] fmt\n > where fmt is the export format of choice. Look in\n > Tools->Preferences->File Handling->File Formats->Short > Name\n > to see which parameter (which differs from the format > name\n > in the File->Export menu) should be passed.\n > Note that the order of -e and -x switches matters.\n > > -- > Jean-Pierre
Sounds good to me. I also like your replacement of "to get an idea" with "to see" and "parameters" with "parameter". The only thing that bugs me is the two "which"es so close together, but that's better than anything I can think of and I have to control my level pickyness :) Thanks for the careful attention to detail. Applied at [0247f726/lyxgit] Scott
