On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: > > I think that the frontends should have a dialog with a tri-state > > (radio) button as this: > > > > Inverse DVI search: > > [ ] Disable > > [ ] Latex option [ --src-specials ] <- text box > > [ ] Package [ srcltx ] <- text box > > I think that we should detect the thing in configure (existence of > srcltx.sty and latex --src-specials), and then pick one and add it when > running latex for view->dvi but *not* for export->latex. I think that > there's no need to add burden to the gui. When can be undesirable to have > it? Can it collide with other packages etc? (maybe a checkbox to supress it > after all?).
Lyx should work with a number of latex distributions, in many versions etc. It is hard to predict what will be the behavior of each one, and _maybe_ implementing a dialog like I sugested could be simpler and more reliable that trying to detect versions and usability (I am NOT trying to have my bit in the gui!:)). Anyway, as you noted, work still have to be done so source specials are included only when viewing->dvi. Note that direct DVI search also uses source specials, so the proposed dialog would rather be called "DVI search", not "Inverse DVI search". I think that passing lyxclient through the XEDITOR environment variable (see still unapplied patch in the first email in this thread) was a good thing, as xdvi will pick that variable if it needs, and therefore there is no need to do any kind of detection. Joćo.
