>>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> How confident are you that it works? Are there differences in what >> they do, or are they equivalent? Angus> They're equivalent. At least that was the aim. Both use latex, Angus> dvips, gs and, optionally, pnmcrop. The shell script uses a Angus> bunch of unix utilites. I *think* that the complete list is: Angus> basename, bc, cd, dirname, grep, ls, mv, rm, sed So it is a good thing to get rid of the sh version. Angus> The python script does all the manipulation using pure python Angus> code, so it should "just work" if you have python installed. Do you think it works with ancient python like 1.5? Angus> In addition, it tries to use the Win32 API to run the external Angus> programs if the appropriate python modules are available. This Angus> will prevent the gs window from flashing up briefly when gs is Angus> used to convert the postscript file to a pile of ppm files. Very good. Angus> If you want to try it out yourself, that'd be great. The two Angus> scripts can be grabbed from Angus> http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/LyX/InstantPreview I'll try to find the time. JMarc
