On 18/04/2011 2:29 AM, Yang Zhang wrote:
I'm interested in adding a new graphics format (Xournal) to LyX that
can be displayed on-screen and rendered in PDF outputs. Just to get
started, I've been trying to figure out how to add a dummy graphics
format. The input is actually a .tex file (but named .foo), and I
tried adding a converter to PDF, but not luck. Details follow.
In Tools> Preferences, I added a new format with:
Format: foo
Short Name: foo
Extension: foo
Editor: gedit
Viewer: gedit
I also added a new converter to PDF (ps2pdf) with:
pdflatex -outputdirectory /tmp/ /home/yang/blah/blah.foo&& cp /tmp/blah.pdf $$o
Note I'm ignoring $$i, just for the sake of getting *something* working.
At least for the export to pdf, it should be sufficient to use:
pdflatex $$i
For the display in the LyX buffer, you might have to define a converter
to .png, but imagemagick will be attempted if you don't define a converter.
Now I tried inserting a simple hello world latex file named .foo into
my document as a graphic. With lyx -dbg graphics, I see the following
output, and in the main window I get the error "Error converting to
loadable format." Any hints? Thanks in advance.
--
Julien
