David Soukal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> a most peculiar thing happened to me: I have always been creating PDF
> versions of my documents by clicking the first Export/PDF option in the
> File menu. But now, this does not work as it used to. Well, I do get the
> PDF but its content is different, namely, PSFrag replacements do not
> work.
>
> I never actually paid attention as to which PDF exporter I'm using; I
> simply clicked the first one (the "it works" approach). :) The first in
> the menu now is: dvipdfm. The third is ps2pdf, which works as expected.
>
> My question is: is the Export menu fully user-configurable? If so, where
> are the items specified?
Effectively, in the "File formats" section of the Edit->Preferences dialog.
Here I have "GUI name"s of "PDF", "PDF (pdflatex)" and "PDF (dvipdfm)"
which appear in that order in the View menu.
> Can I add my own export chain?
Sure. Add, modify and remove stuff using the Converters section. One small
UI pain: you must press "Modify" to update the list in the dialog and
thereafter press "Save" or "Apply" to save it or use it in LyX.
> I played with LyX 1.4 CVS recently, is it possible that this new version
> affected the Export menu of version 1.3?
That depends whether you configured it as
configure --with-version-suffix
which results in your local lyx data directory being named as something
unique. On a unix machine I have:
$ ls -ald ~/.lyx* | sed 's/ \{1,\}/ /g' | cut -d' ' -f'9-'
/home/angus/.lyx -> .lyx-1.3.x
/home/angus/.lyx-1.3.x
/home/angus/.lyx-1.4.0cvs -> .lyx-1.4.x
/home/angus/.lyx-1.4.x
where .lyx-1.3.x contains any tweaked support files for LyX 1.3.x, for some
version number X. Etc.
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Angus
