On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 3:41 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > 2014-01-29 Scott Kostyshak > >> 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. > > > A use case could be that you run a wrapper script instead of pdflatex > directly (which includes texliveonfly, for instance), but still want LyX to > treat the document as PDFLaTeX when it comes to the conversion of image > formats, pdfsync, external material etc.).
The conversion of image formats is already done because of LaTeX (pdflatex) or at least it happens when I do Export > LaTeX (pdflatex). I imagine the same is true for external material, although I did not test. So to me it seems like latex=pdflatex belongs in the file format of LaTeX (pdflatex), or in the use case above, "myfancyoutputformat"; and not in the converter flags. So I still don't understand. Scott
