On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 06:13:58PM +0200, Kornel Benko wrote: > Am Montag, 27. April 2015 um 17:28:37, schrieb Enrico Forestieri > <for...@lyx.org> > > commit 691fdea346eb5643bff3f84017629d966a90af05 > > Author: Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> > > Date: Mon Apr 27 17:22:25 2015 +0200 > > > > Try hard to obtain an instant preview. > > > > When the dvipng route is selected and latex fails, the > > lyxpreview2bitmap.py > > script simply bails out. The failure may be due to using a specific pdf > > only feature in ERT (for example, the inclusion of a pdf image). > > In this case the procedure may succeed simply trying to use pdflatex > > and the legacy conversion method. > > As we are at it, there is also the possibility of having lua code in previews. > In this case only (dvi)lualatex engine would work. > > But we cannot have everything. It is already nice as it is now.
Why not? We can try in each method in turn until one of them succeeds. BTW, in master it would only suffice setting the document default output to dvilualatex, no? I thought that was the gist of your commit. -- Enrico
