Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote: > Sure, but as most of us rely on Imagemagick to do it, why not > preconfigure the standard preferences to use convert/display/mogrify ?
Shrug. Herbert wrote convertDefault.sh as a fall back because he got sick of adding yet another conversion process to the configure script. If you feel up to it, feel free. > The only idea lying behind convertDefault.sh is to replace convert > by any other image converter (e.g. gimp, if you understand how > batch processing works there) and leave the preferences void, > so why not both solutions ? Not true. The idea behind convertDefault.sh is to provide the compiled LyX executable with a hard-coded default converter whilst also providing you, the user, with some flexibility. What you do with the script is up to you. Personally I use different converters for different tasks and am not remotely interested in using convertDefault.sh. (Sorry but there it is.) I've just spent this time explaining how the process actually works out of the goodness of my heart ;-) > Anyway, why not set the executable bit on in the distrib, at install > time, for all files in the scripts dir > (that would be good for lyx2lyx as well) instead of patching ? The aim is to move to asynchronous conversion using fork() and execvp(). (We use it already when converting images for display on LyX's screen). In this case we _have_ to run "sh convertDefault.sh". -- Angus
