Burak Arslan wrote:
hi,
i used to use makefiles for compiling tex files into pdf. before
invoking pdflatex et al, those makefiles incorporated various
information from its context like current svn revision number, user who
invokes the operation etc. i did this by writing the output of the
command (e.g. whoami > user) to a file, then \input'ting it where
necessary.
is there any way to duplicate this behaviour using lyx?
if not, you may find below a bunch of ideas to accomplish this:
1) add a "run make" button, for us hacker-folk :)
2) add a "svn revision" field in the insert menu. ( i'm sorry if it's
already in the 1.6.x series which reportedly has svn support. )
3) add a "custom field" feature, that'll let me run some shell commands,
and embed the output into the latex file. they're to be run everytime
the pdf/ps/etc. are generated.
3.1) embedding such custom fields in lyx files would certainly be
awesome, but it sounds like a security nightmare.
You might be able to use the external inset for this purpose. I believe
this should be working in 1.4 and 1.5 too. Look at
lib/external_templates for a number of examples.
You can also of course \input a latex or text file in LyX. So your
current solution would still work the same.
In 1.6, we also have the info inset (InsetInfo) that can be easily
extended to do what you want. Please open a bugzilla enhancement entry
for this (bugzilla.lyx.org).
Abdel.
