Am Mittwoch, 7. Januar 2004 10:39 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > >>>>> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:03:16PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes > John> wrote: > >> If you want to export to dvi and have an eps image, I seem to > >> remember that the dvi will contain an hardcoded reference to a file > >> that does not exist: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1244
Is there anything else that may not work if the tmp dir is always used? > Yes. It would be great if someone could take the time to think about > all these issue and get the big picture. The current converter stuff > needs a redesign, IMO. It may be that LyX needs to keep trace of files > it generates (with checksums). But how can it know what files are > generated? The converter could keep a list. > Georg, if you feel like venturing this territory, you will be very > welcome. I thought once or twice about writing a text on how the > converter really works and how it should work, but this never > happened obviously. I will try what happens if I remove the tmp dir choice (only the checkbox, not the path setting) and use it always. I imagine that this simplifies the code, and after that I might be able to understand it better. Keeping track of the generated files is important also for performance. I do this currently with a converter shell script that only converts the file if it was modified and returns a cached copy from a hidden directory otherwise. Without this trick some of my lecture notes would take about 10 minutes to convert to ps, since they contain a lot of figures (some of them bitmapped). Georg
