"Kayvan A. Sylvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 08:42:48PM +0900, R. Lahaye wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Are there any cons for adding an input filter to the
>> opening/saving of lyx files?
>>
>> Because most common users do not want to have a look at
>> the contents of the lyx file itself, it could save a
>> considerable amount of bytes by using (un)zipping during
>> opening and saving the lyx document.
>>
>> Ideally a user configurable input/output filter could be
>> used in the preferences (maybe somewhat similar to the
>> graphics conversions in preferences).
>>
>>
>> For example the gain with "gzip --best":
>>
>> filename (from CVS) :original:gzipped:percentage
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>> splash.lyx : 2772 : 1216 : 44 %
>> Foils.lyx : 9226 : 3177 : 34 %
>> noweb2lyx.lyx : 22061 : 5730 : 26 %
>> fr_ExemplesTableaux.lyx : 102153 : 3579 : 4 %
>> ----------------------------------------------------
>>
>> The last file is an odd example (the contents is very repetitive),
>> but this list shows that gzipping can be useful and the larger
>> the lyx file, the more efficient the zipping.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rob.
>
| I don't like this. This is a job best performed by an external script:
I do not quite agree. I think that LyX should be able to read a
gzipped file and to write is back as zipped using zlib
However to create the initial zipped file gzip proper should be used.
| move /usr/bin/lyx to /usr/bin/lyx.real
>
| #!/bin/sh
| #
| # /usr/bin/lyx
| #
>
| args=""
| files=""
| for arg
| do
| case $arg in
| *.gz)
| name=`echo $arg | sed 's@.gz$@@'`
| gunzip $arg
| if [ $? -ne 0 ]
| then
| echo "Error trying to gunzip $arg"
| exit 1
| fi
| files="${files} ${name}"
| args="${args} ${name}"
| ;;
| *)
| args="${args} ${arg}"
| ;;
| esac
| done
and can someone please explain to me the difference between ${arg} and
$arg...
--
Lgb
