Dekel Tsur said:
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 06:12:00PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>> Peter> 4. Bonus: extra-double-good if it can read the file from a URL
>> Peter> (probably FTP since whitespace gets weird with HTML).
>>
>> This is more difficult.
>
> It is possible, in two ways:
> 1. Using the external inset
> 2. \write18{wget -r <url>} in latex mode, and changing the latex->dvi
> converter to be "latex -shell-escape $$i".
>
> However, the latter is a security risk,How so? > and both methods will make > updating the DVI very slow. > The preferred option is probably to write a script that updates the > necessary files (the script can gather the URLs from the .lyx file). Hmm. Maybe I need to wrap the whole deal in a Makefile . . . rsync as a dependency to "build" a book . . . -Peter
