Mike Meyer wrote: >> Sure. The Windows way would be to define a viewer in lyxrc.defaults as >> >> \viewer pdf "open $$i" >> >> because the user will already have associated a .pdf extension with >> something like AcroRd32.exe. > > I thought the command on windows was "start". Then again, I use > windows only under great duress, and charge extra for it. > > The same thing works for OS X. > > It also works for Unix if you've got the "open" utility. > > With Unix and Mac OS X, open can be found on the path. Is the same > true for Windows?
On windows, I understand that "open" is a built-in, like "start". In the case of "open", it searches the registry for an association between a file extension and an app that's been registered to view such a file. > Of course, that only deals with opening files for viewing. LyX also > needs to deal with commands that convert files between types, like > pdflatex, latex2html, dvipdf2m, gif2pdf, etc. The unix open will deal > with this (well, the CVS version will). The OS X open won't. Will the > Windows open? No, but the Windows solution will be the same; we should search the registry for (many of ) these things. To paraphase Bo Peng, it's pretty un-windows-ish for apps to adjust the PATH when they're installed. Most things use the registry. Anyway, this is all getting a little OT for the Users' list. Bo, if you're interested in python-ifying the configure script, that'd be great. Come along to the lyx-devel list! Don't be scared off by all this registry noise; it's certainly not needed for a first implementation. -- Angus
