On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 6:29 AM, Kornel Benko <kor...@lyx.org> wrote: > Am Montag, 21. Januar 2013 um 09:07:57, schrieb Jean-Pierre Chrétien > <jeanpierre.chret...@free.fr> > >> 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 > > > > I think, we should allow also the long format name. Should not be too > difficult to implement.
That might be convenient for many, although they would have to remember to quote the multi-word argument. Scott
