Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: >>>>>> "Dekel" == Dekel Tsur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dekel> Is there any objection to change the line LATEX=latex in > Dekel> lyxpreview2bitmap.sh to LATEX=elatex ? > > Dekel> I want this change as latex with Hebrew requires using > elatex. Dekel> As far as I know, there are no side effects when > elatex is Dekel> used. > > ... except when elatex is not installed at the site. > > I know I have a crappy installation here, but I think that there are > other persons that choose not to build these formats for whetever > reason. > > Actually, what we need is a way for lyxpreview2bitmap.sh to pick up > the latex->dvi converter setting, but I am not sure how. > > JMarc
If we assume that all 'proper' systems will have a lyxrc.defaults file that can be found by lyxpreview2bitmap.sh, could we not use this: sed -n '/^\\converter *latex *dvi/p' ../lyxrc.defaults | cut -d'"' -f 2` Here is gives latex $$i -- Angus
