On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:20:22AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Kayvan" == Kayvan A Sylvan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Kayvan> On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 01:38:07PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
> >> The GUI stuff is icing that will take 10 minutes; I'm happy to do
> >> that. However, I'd prefer to leave the configure stuff to you.
> >> Happy?
> >>
>
> Kayvan> Sure. This patch almost works right. LyX now checks the new
> Kayvan> variable (which was set by configure) and does the right
> Kayvan> thing.
>
> Your patch does not sound right. It says that under cygwin, all
> programs should use dos-style paths. If this is the case, a simple
> #ifdef __CYGWIN__ could be used to hardcode this into LyX...
No, it's the other way around. In my case, the teTeX that comes
with Cygwin does not need dos-style paths.
> However, I guess that the situation is that _some_ programs (like
> teTeX) will need to use dos-style paths. In this case, what we may
> need is a new converter flag that says whether a converter require
> external or internal paths.
Hmmm... Yes, that can happen. I route around such problems though.
For example: The Acrobat reader program needs dos paths. So, I use
the following shell script (as /usr/local/bin/acroread):
#!/bin/sh
if [ $# -eq 1 ]
then
FILE=`cygpath -a -w "$1"`
else
FILE=''
fi
exec acroread.link "$FILE"
The /usr/local/bin/acroread.link is a symlink to the latest AcroRdr executable.
In my case, /cygdrive/c/Program Files/Adobe/Acrobat 6.0/Reader/AcroRd32.exe
is what the link points to.
> Could you tell us, among all helpers programs used with LyX on
> windows, which ones require dos names, which ones require unix names
> and which ones can use both? I think this would give us an idea on how
> to proceed.
I think it really depends. There are native ports of various TeX
implementations that need native windows paths, and there might
even be a tetex port that needs native paths.
By the way, the test for whether or not we need path correction already
existed in $(srcdir)/lib/configure.m4 and I merely added a way for LyX
to make use of the information. This is why the test must be run
in lib/configure and not hardcoded.
My particular installation will work just fine if I switch from tetex
to MikTeX (which needs windows-style paths) after doing Tools->Reconfigure.
This would not be the case with a hard-coded requirement (needing either
Unix-style or Windows-style paths).
---Kayvan
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