Alfredo Braunstein wrote: >> Actually, I think that prepare_for_export could check whether the >> converted image has been generated and if not add some lines to an >> ostream that is eventually dumped as a shell script. That way we would >> need to monitor only one process and wouldn't run into system overload >> problems that your LoaderQueue was designed to overcome for on-screen >> display. > > That's a good idea I think. We could have the convert code return directly > the command sequence for this purpose, instead of calling each converter > in the path. But I still don't see the need for this 'two pass' stuff.
Sure. We'd dump two files instead, shellscript of conversion processes and latex/docbook file. The conversion path would then be a linear image conversion -> run latex -> anything else. The real problem is that the code that decides on whether another latex run is needed is coded into LyX. If we could turn this into a shell function, then the whole schmooze could be dumped out as a single shell script and we could use the same asynchronous handling as is used by the graphics converter now. -- Angus
