John Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 04:13:07PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
| > >>>>> "larry" == larry  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > 
| > larry> It worries me when no one here responds to a good question.
| >
| > larry> Again, without working algorithms for detecting changes to
| > larry> included or input files, you require the user to change
| > larry> *actual* text in the document -- meaning the introduction of
| > larry> errors -- just to get an updated preview.  Which is absurd.
| > 
| > In fact, from what I understand, LyX does track included files, but
| > there are some tests done *before* that block the update :( But we do
| > not want to rewrite this code (which is a bit messy) right now.
| 
| Frankly, I think the "Update DVI" should, by default, always perform
| *at* *least* *one* LaTeX run.  (With "Update PostScript" ... well,
| there's more going on there, so it's harder to say if and what should
| be run at least once.)

No. We don't want to always do a latex run. We want to be clever and
it *is* not hard to be clever, but I might need help finding border
cases that fails.

        Lgb

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