On 9/08/2017 3:35 a.m., José Abílio Matos wrote:
On Thursday, 25 May 2017 01.31.05 WEST Andrew Parsloe wrote:
(Deep breath.) I think ext_copy.py is only half of a pair of scripts.
The other half is a "dummy exporter", something like
## dummy_export.py
## a minimal script used to 'export' the
## current document and excite the LyX
## copier mechanism into action
import sys
fin = open(sys.argv[1], 'r') # $$i
fout = open(sys.argv[2], 'w') # $$o
fout.write('\n')
fin.close()
fout.close()
This code could simply be:
import shutils, sys
shutil.copy2(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2])
Thank you for the suggestion José. (I am a rank amateur Pythonist.)
However, testing produced an error until I realised that "import
shutils" should be "import shutil", when it worked perfectly.
To give an example of use: if I want to copy the preview logs back from
the temp directory to the document directory or a subdirectory /LOGS of
it, I define a file format LOG (preview) with extension tmp. The copier is
python -tt $$s/scripts/ext_copy.py -e log -t LOGS $$i $$o
and under converters, from LyX to LOG (preview), enter
python -tt $$s/scripts/dummy_export.py $$i $$o
"Exporting" the current document to LOG (preview) format creates a file
<filename>.tmp in the temp directory (containing a single linefeed
character); ext_copy.py then springs into action and copies the preview
logs back to the /LOGS subdirectory of the document directory. Since I
use the LaTeX runs of the preview mechanism to perform various
non-standard tasks, the logs are often of great interest.
Using these two scripts together like this provides a fairly simple
mechanism for a user to rescue or preserve files from the temp
directory. Perhaps LyX developers might include something like
dummy_export.py, the "other half" of ext_copy.py, with LyX so that this
mechanism is available "out of the box"?
Probably this should be added to trac as to not to be forgotten.
Will do.
Andrew
Andrew
Regards,
--
José Abílio
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