>>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Angus> Second thought. Have a shell script that just initialises such Angus> variables and call it from lyxpreview2bitmap.sh. Get configure Angus> to autogenerate this script This would not solve my problem, for example (where I need to use 'babel' as command). No amount to configure trickery will be able to replace reading from the prefs. But I agree that your solution of generating a small script would be already nice. However, how will lyxpreview2bitmap.sh find it, if it is in ~/.lyx-1.3.3/, for example? JMarc