Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > We need it to export from LyX to anything. I suppose it's only useful in > > the export dialog if you use the "send to" feature (i.e. enter a > > command in the dialog's lower widget). > > How does the "send to" feature works? This is the first time I hear that LyX > offers this.
We have this since a very long time. It was a pet project of Jürgen Vigna, IIRC. In general, you can send the exported file to any command you like (the exported file is represented by the $$FName placeholder). The most simple use case (which I use quite a lot) is to send it to a different viewer than the one associated with the format in prefs. Try for instance xdvi $$FName if you want to view your DVI file with xdvi, but have YAP as default DVI viewer or notepad $$FName to open your LyX file in an editor. More advanced uses include sending the output through postprocessing scripts, fax or mail it. Basically, it's a tool to do things with your file which are too unfrequent to set up a specific converter. > >> 4. What does DVI(LuaTeX) and DVI(XeTeX) in contrary to DVI? > > > > You can make a DVI (and PostScript) with LuaTeX and all its features > > (non-tex fonts, real unicode etc.). > > This doesn't work. I cannot even compile one of our documentation files to > DVI (LuaTeX). As soon as a document contains an image, I get a LuaTeX > error that the file path is not in utf8 and thus not allowed. This is now > bug http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7713. Yep, see my analysis there. Jürgen
