On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Staffan Ringbom wrote:
> Hello, LyX is improving nicely!
We try to make it better (that is all except me, I'm the one who inserts
the bugs for fun :-)
> -The option insert external material
> (e.g. the insertation xfig files) is a great.
> It would be terrific if this could be extended to
> floats as well. Is it possible to insert an xfig as
> figure float. At the moment i get LaTeX error when I try.
> An extension to png files and other types of figures would
> be doubly great.
I can only answer on this, so:
The "insert external" is mostly a proof of concept, I'm currently working
on a new graphics insert that will be used to support at the very least
EPS and PNG, with a future smarts to support other formats i.e. XFig.
Dekel Tsur is working on adding a convertor mechanism that will make
adding support for PDF generation.
Though I'm not sure how much of this will be officialy out in 1.1.6, the
code is already in 1.1.6 but it's somewhat hidden (to use the new graphics
insert you need to type M-x graphics-insert)
> -Paths.
> My default path for documents is ~/doc.
> lyx-1.1.6cvs point as default on ~ when I
> chose "save as" a newfile. This is apparently wrong.
The excuse is that we modified a lot in those parts, this probably
slipped.
Most importantly, Thanks for the feedback!
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