>>To: LyX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>Subject: Re: changing bibtex command
>>From: Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>X-Home-Page: http://ethology.zool.su.se/~stefano
>>Date: 15 Mar 2001 18:11:11 +0100
>>User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.4
>>
>>Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> Stefano Ghirlanda wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> >
>>> > > Hi,
>>> > > I am experimenting on a wrapper script around bibtex. I remember there
>>> > > is a way to change the name of the bibtex executable in ~/.lyx/lyxrc
>>> > > but I can't remember how...
>>> >
>>> > I think I was wrong, in LaTeX.C "bibtex" seems to be hard-coded.
>>>
>>> that's right, but lyx searchs first in your home-dir/bin, when your
>>> path is set well (otherwise you produce an endless loop).
>>> Therefore you can define your own ~/bin/bibtex which itself
>>> starts /usr/bin/bibtex, the one from tex!
>>
>>Yes, but I do not consider this to be an ideal setup. For instance,
>>the program would need to be installed in (or linked to from) each
>>user's ~/bin directory. Having ~/bin before the system diretctories is
>>also not recommended from a securiy point of view.
>>
>>Thanks for the tip anyway,
>>Stefano
What about an alias instead of a link ?
--
Jean-Pierre
