On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 01:33:21PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote:
> Juergen Spitzmueller wrote:
>
> > Georg Baum wrote:
> >> The reason for renaming the files was to be able to put everything in one
> >> temp dir. In 1.3 we had one temp dir per buffer, that lead to problems
> >> with included graphics. I would be possible to work around this in some
> >> different way, but that would not be trivial and need lots of testing.
> >
> > Isn't it possible to get access to the real filenames nevertheless, by
> > using symlinks or something?
>
> No. If that would work we could have used the original filenames directly.
> Consider the included documents
>
> dir1/x.lyx
> dir2/x.lyx
>
> We can not copy them to the same dir. We could create subdirs, but then that
> does not work for absolute paths, or for ../../dir1/dir2/x.lyx. We would
> also get problems with files with spaces or other strange characters in the
> name.
>
> >> I'd prefer to add the \includeonly feature natively to LyX.
> >
> > While that would be nice, it would only cover the problem IMHO. Even if I
> > don't know any at the moment, we basically break every package (or LaTeX
> > command) that uses the filenames of subdocuments (or of their auxiliary
> > files).
>
> That is a drawback of that approach, yes. The same holds true for images.
> OTOH I can't imagine any other case where access to the real file name from
> the preamble or a ERT command is needed. We discussed this at length with
> Angus, and the result was that creating mangled file names is the best
> thing to do.
What about making use of TEXINPUTS and friends? I attach here two
wrapper scripts for latex and xdvi that I was using some year ago with
lyx versions 1.1.x when no files were copied to the lyx_tmpdir.
They were working very well.
--
Enrico
#!/bin/sh
args=$*
PWD=`pwd`
case $PWD in
/tmp/lyx_tmpdir*)
# we were called by LyX, so let's get the input path
texpath=`head $1 | grep [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IPAT=`expr "$texpath" : '[EMAIL PROTECTED](.*\)//}}.*'`
IPAT=.:$IPAT:$IPAT/figs
# tell xdvi and/or dvips about the input path
echo $IPAT > LYXINPUTPATH
# strip off the "/tmp/lyx_tmpdir*/" added by LyX
sed -e "s?${PWD}/??g" $1 > $1.new
mv $1.new $1
;;
*) while [ $# -ne 0 ]; do
file=$1
shift
done
IPAT=`dirname $file`
IPAT=$IPAT:$IPAT/figs
;;
esac
if test -z "$TEXINPUTS"; then
TEXINPUTS=$IPAT:
else
case $TEXINPUTS in
:*) TEXINPUTS=:$IPAT$TEXINPUTS ;;
*:) TEXINPUTS=$TEXINPUTS$IPAT: ;;
esac
fi
export TEXINPUTS
exec /usr/bin/latex $args
#!/bin/sh
#
# Visualizza un file dvi in portrait o landscape
file=""
args=""
for arg in "$@"; do
case $arg in
-*) args="$args $arg" ;;
*) if [ -f "$arg" -o -f "$arg.dvi" ]; then
dir=`dirname "$arg"`
file=`basename "$arg"`
cd "$dir"
if [ ! -f "$file" ]; then
file=$file.dvi
fi
args="$args \"$file\""
else
args="$args $arg"
fi ;;
esac
done
if test -f LYXINPUTPATH; then
# we were called from LyX, so the input path is in LYXINPUTPATH
PWD=`cat LYXINPUTPATH`
else
PWD="."
PWD=$PWD:$PWD/figs
fi
if test -z "$TEXINPUTS"; then
TEXINPUTS=$PWD:
else
case $TEXINPUTS in
:*) TEXINPUTS=:$PWD$TEXINPUTS ;;
*:) TEXINPUTS=$TEXINPUTS$PWD: ;;
esac
fi
export TEXINPUTS
paper=
if [ -f "$file" ]; then
# use landscape if horiz >= vert dimension in dvi file
line=`dvitype "$file" | grep maxv=`
maxv=`expr "$line" : 'maxv=\(.*\), maxh.*'`
maxh=`expr "$line" : '.*maxh=\(.*\), maxstack.*'`
if [ $maxh -ge $maxv ]; then
paper="-paper a4r"
else
paper="-geometry 638 -margins 1.5"
fi
fi
eval exec /usr/bin/xdvi $paper -gamma 2 -expert $args
