http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7510#comment:13
I see my idea has already received some attention. Nothing is truly new in
my idea.
It seems to me the patch proposer will not have his way. The patch needs
to be implemented against a full source checkout, bug checked, etc. I have
some difficulty understanding details here. My experience in writing
patches for other people's projects is that they will not take interest
unless a full, tested version is supplied.
I'm going to study in the external template JMarc mentions. For me, preview
of the inkscape drawing inside LyX is not vital, treating this like an xfig
is OK.
Short term, I will get in the habit of running the Inkscape export to the
two part file separately from lyx, then ERT \includesvg{}. The difficult
part is to remember to export the svg file. That is why the LyX external
doc thing for Xfig is helpful, it ameliorates human error. The eye candy is
not important to me.
This reminds me of an Xfig related question. Can I make a script to
accelerate LyX compiles by only running the xfig transfig code when truly
necessary. What do you say to this idea:
I'm going to see if I can script up the Inkscape SVG exporter so it only
makes a new version if the existing pdf_tex file is older than the inkscape
svg file. I don't know how that might be done, but I bet it involves find,
and at least one use in awk. Possibly two greps :)
PJ
On Monday, July 28, 2014, Cyrille Artho <c.ar...@aist.go.jp> wrote:
>
>
> Julien Rioux wrote:
>
>> On 28/07/2014 10:18 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>>
>>> Le 28/07/2014 16:02, Paul Johnson a écrit :
>>>
>>>> I've found Xfig to be increasingly difficult to use on newer Linux
>>>> systems and consider now using Inkscape.
>>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Now Inkscape has a similar --export-latex flag, described here:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/svg-inkscape
>>>>
>>>> That has preamble code that works exactly like the LyX external
>>>> document s.
>>>>
>>>> I think it would be nice if you incorporate that in LyX, save me the
>>>> trouble of running inkscape scripts separately.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This can be done by copying and modifying the Xfig entry in
>>> external_templates. The format looks a bit intimidating at first sight,
>>> but it is documented as far as I know.
>>>
>>> JMarc
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> You would need to define the converters, too. But somebody already did
>> this
>> and explained it here: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7510
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Julien
>>
>> Hi Paul and Julien,
> I agree that having this feature would be great, so I hope the patch above
> can be merged. Basically xfig is no longer being developed but Inkscape is
> improving over time. So it's only a matter of time until Inkscape replaces
> xfig even for long-time xfig users. It would be great if using Inkscape
> images from LyX was as easy as using xfig images.
> --
> Regards,
> Cyrille Artho - http://artho.com/
> A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man
> contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
> -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
>
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