On Thursday 18 October 2001 11:20, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 11:18:03AM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote:
> > > I need it for the math-extern stuff, so asnchronous operation is not
> > > wanted...
> >
> > No, I don't see that. What I envisage is that the converter class writes
a
> > shell script containing the conversion calls. How that shell script is
then
> > invoked is up to you.
>
> I don't want to handle shellscripts in mathed.
>
> I want to be able to say "filter content of string x trough external comman
> y and give me back its output as a string" in one line without caring for
> any detail of its implementation.
>
> Alternately, I want to write
>
> vector<string> cmd;
> cmd.push_back("external_command");
> cmd.push_back("-possibly");
> cmd.push_back("with aruments");
> x_stream ps(cmd);
> string in = "hallo";
> string out;
> ps << in;
> ps >> out;
>
>
> > string const script_file = "converter.sh";
> > shellstream script(script_file);
> > converters.buildScript(script, "image.eps", "/tmp/lyx_xyz", "EPS", "XPM");
> > converters.runSynchronous(script);
>
> Ok... this is close enough.
No doubt I'll get less woolly about all this as I learn. Remember, I knew no
C++ at all when I started with LyX and that was only two years ago. I still
use fortran a LOT ;-)
