On Friday 19 April 2002 9:53 am, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Angus Leeming wrote:
> > On Friday 19 April 2002 2:51 am, R. Lahaye wrote:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I'm writing a paper with LyX-CVS using Grace (.agr) graphics files,
> >>which is extremely convenient since Grace is my 2D graphics application.
> >>No need for manual conversions: LyX does that for me and my graphics
> >>in LyX is always up-to-date. Wonderful!
> >>
> >>However, when exporting this to LaTeX (which is required by the editor),
> >>LyX is losing some of its graphics power here: the LaTeX file has the
> >>graphics files as .agr Grace files which are, of course, not recognized
> >>as a LaTeX graphics format.
> >
> > ????? Rob, you posted a patch the other day defining conversions from
> > XPM to EPS, so I know you know how to do all this.
> >
> > Define a converter from AGR to EPS and be done with it.
>
> Angus, I think Rob means that file->export->latex should not
> write the original filename. for example:
> \includegraphics[...]{my.agr}
> is the original latex code. Rob wants it as my.eps in the
> exported texfile.
>
> I do not think, that this makes sense, because a manual
> conversion from "any" to "eps" is still needed when sending
> the texfile together with the eps-files to a publisher.
> So the user can convert first and than use the eps.
>
> HErbertOk. Understood. However, I can now anticipate the next user request: it'd be nice if LyX did this all for me. Ie, on export to LaTeX move the generated eps files from /tmp to the working directory (Perhaps with an Alert "this will overwrite the following files ..."). Now I see why JMarc reckons it'll take more than one go to get all this right. A.
