On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:39:00AM -0400, Bennett Helm wrote:
> OK. Simple stupidity, I guess: I had the dvi converter defined as
> latex rather than pplatex.
Perhaps you are another victim of the way path_prefix is (not) handled.
> Is this a change I should make to the default distribution?
The configure.py script should already pick up pplatex, but it seems
to fail when pplatex is in the path_prefix specified in preferences
(at least on Windows the path_prefix specified in lyxrc.dist seems
to work).
> What implications does it have for reverse DVI search? Using pplatex
> --src $$i doesn't seem to work: it fails silently, without producing
> a .dvi file. Using \usepackage[active]{srcltx} in the preamble works,
> but that requires more effort/knowledge from the user. Solutions?
Sorry, cannot help here. I can only say that pplatex should call
latex passing to it any specified argument.
Here is what I obtain using miktex (note that everything starting
at the line "Usage: latex [OPTION...] [COMMAND...]" really is
the output of "latex --help", so it may be different for you):
$ pplatex --help
Usage: pplatex [-debug] [TEXARGS]
Run latex and process DVI file with dvipost.
The following options are interpreted by pplatex:
-debug increase dvipost debug level
All other options and arguments are passed to latex.
Usage: latex [OPTION...] [COMMAND...]
-alias=APP Pretend to be APP. This affects both the
format used and the search path.
-aux-directory=DIR Define the directory for auxiliary files.
-buf-size=N Set buf_size to N.
-c-style-errors Print file:line:error style messages.
-disable-installer Don't install missing packages on-the-fly.
-enable-installer Install missing packages on-the-fly.
-enable-write18 Enable the \write18 construct.
-error-line=N Set error_line to N.
-font-max=N Set font_max to N.
-font-mem-size=N Set font_mem_size to N.
-half-error-line=N Set half_error_line to N.
-halt-on-error Stop after the first error.
-help Show this help screen and exit.
-hhelp Show the manual page in an HTMLHelp window
and exit when the window is closed.
-include-directory=DIR Prepend DIR to the input search path.
-initialize Be the INI variant of the program. This is
implicitly true if the program name is ini*.
-interaction=MODE Set the interaction mode; MODE must be one
of: batchmode, nonstopmode, scrollmode,
errorstopmode.
-job-name=NAME Set the job name and hence the name(s) of
the output file(s).
-job-time=FILE Set the job time. Take FILE's timestamp as
the reference.
-max-in-open=N Set max_in_open to N.
-max-print-line=N Set max_print_line to N.
-max-strings=N Set max_strings to N.
-mem-bot=N Set mem_bot to N.
-mem-max=N Set mem_max to N.
-mem-min=N Set mem_min to N.
-mem-top=N Set mem_top to N.
-nest-size=N Set nest_size to N.
-output-directory=DIR Define the directory for output files.
-param-size=N Set param_size to N.
-pool-size=N Set pool_size to N.
-quiet Suppress all output (except errors).
-record-package-usages=FILE Record package usages and write them into
FILE.
-recorder Record file names.
-save-size=N Set save_size to N.
-src-specials Insert source specials in certain places of
the DVI file.
-stack-size=N Set stack_size to N.
-string-vacancies=N Set string_vacancies to N.
-tcx=TCXNAME Use the TCX file TCXNAME.
-terminal=oem Use the DOS codepage for console output.
-time-statistics Show processing time statistics.
-trace=OPTIONS Turn tracing on. OPTIONS is a
comma-separated list of trace options.
-hhelp gives more information.
-trie-op-size=N Set trie_op_size to N.
-trie-size=N Set trie_size to N.
-undump=NAME Use NAME instead of program name when
loading internal tables.
-version Print version information and exit.
--
Enrico
