Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > FWIW, I would like to propose for next GSoC (assuming we have a momentum > towards submitting) a overhaul of out converter scheme where formats can > be qualified through flags. For example, there would be only one pdf > format (and one viewer), but the pdflatex converter would produce > pdf:pdlatex format instead of the ugly pdf2. Converters would use the > specialized version if available, or a generic one. > > I am not sure whether this leads to a change to our path searching > algorithm. The idea is that, once you use a converter that has a > qualifier, the whole path inherits this qualifier and thus can use > different converters. > > This idea is very preliminary for now, but we should try to refactor all > our code that handles different latex flavours, which seems pretty > fragile to me.
I've added your thoughts here, in case we get an application for GSOC 14 up and running: http://wiki.lyx.org/GSoC/GSoCProjectIdeasFor2014#toc4 Please revise. Regards, Jürgen
