On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > 2014-01-29 Scott Kostyshak > >> But aren't those already taken into account because of the "from" part >> of a converter? For example, if it's from LaTeX (pdflatex) then the >> output from LyX should already be set to pdflatex. But I guess there >> could be differences after pdflatex is run, such as how to parse the >> log? > > > How would you deal then with custom formats? If I specify a format > "myfancyoutputformat", how should I tell LyX to treat it as a form of > pdflatex, other that by using the flag latex=pdflatex?
So in this case myfancyoutputformat would be used instead of LaTeX (pdflatex)? If so, I now see why latex=pdflatex is needed. What would be a use case for using myfancyoutputformat over LaTeX (pdflatex)? The only advantage I see would be control over the file format settings such as editor/viewer so I think there's still something I'm missing in understanding this. Scott
