On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 06:04:31PM -0700, Arien Malec wrote:
> I'm using lyx (1.1.6fix3) as a front-end to build Linuxdoc SGML. I've had some
> problems with users either not using a version of Lyx that supports this, or
> who haven't configured Lyx with sgmltools support, so I thought I'd write an
> Autoconf macro to check whether Lyx support Linuxdoc.
We do this at configure stage.
Also do Edit->Reconfigure
it has a line that says:
+checking for linuxdoc class linuxdoc... yes
That is enough.
In reality we only search for sgml2lyx to be present in the system PATH,
assuming from there that the version 1 of sgml-tools is installed.
We use it then to preview the document in dvi, ps or html.
> I thought to query Lyx itself and see, but couldn't find a command line
> argument to check (I could just run lyx -e linuxdoc empty.lyx, but I *think*
> that on older version of Lyx that'll run the full UI, which would not be
> desirable in a configure script).
>
> I noted the textclass.lst file in the Lyx share directory, and thought that if
> it answered to:
>
> grep "^\"linuxdoc" "$LYXLIBDIR/textclass.lst
>
> Then I would be OK (I note, however, that textclass.lst in my environment
> mentions docbook, but Lyx doesn't support export to DocBook (?)).
Yes it does. Notice that the sgmltools package version 2 or 3 support
docbook, and lyx autodetects that on the configuration step.
> The man page for Lyx says:
> The system directory is determined by searching for the file "chkconfig.ltx".
> Directories are searched in this order:
> 1) -sysdir command line parameter
> 2) LYX_DIR_11x environment variable
> 3) Maybe <path of binary>/TOP_SRCDIR/lib
> 4) <path of binary>/../share/<name of binary>/
> 5) hardcoded lyx_dir (usually /usr/local/share/lyx on
> UNIX and
> %X11ROOT%\XFree86\lib\X11\lyx on OS/2 with XFree)
>
> Ack. What's this about TOP_SRCDIR??? Anyhow, my strategy is to search for
> chkconfig.ltx following the above search (but ignoring OS/2, alas), and then,
> in that dir, do the above mentioned grep to search for linuxdoc support.
lyx -x reconfigure gives you that but leaves the window opened.
Please tell me if you have further doubts...
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Jos�
