>>>>> "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

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