On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:46:31 +0200
Charpentier Philippe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 13:26:15 +0200
> Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 01:09:47PM +0200, Charpentier Philippe wrote:
> > > I would like to know if it is possible to define a viewer, a converter,
> > > a custom_export_command or something else such that, with one click on a
> > > menu entry, the two following things are done when the file DIR/file.lyx
> > > is open in LyX:
> > > 
> > > 1) DIR/file.lyx is exported in latex to DIR/file.tex
> > > 2) a bash script is run on DIR/file.tex (i.e. with the complete path)
> > > 
> > > For example, the script would manage the compilation process (diffrently
> > > than LyX do it) in such a way that I would be able to use vtex without
> > > crashing lyx.
> > 
> > Define a new 'Format' 'vtex' in your preferences.
> > Define a viewer for this format.
> > Define a converter  'LaTeX -> vtex' (basically the name of your script)
> > 
> > Andre\
> 
> I tried the following:
> 
> a new format:
> 
> \format "latexx" "tex" "LaTeX-X" ""
> 
> a new viewer:
> 
> \viewer "latexx" "$HOME/bin/LaTeX"
> 
> a new converter:
> 
> \converter "latex" "latexx" "$HOME/bin/LaTeX $$i" ""
> 
> (with $HOME= my home)
> 
> then LaTeX-X appears in the view menu. But I get an error:
> the lyx file (file.lyx) is exported to latex format in the temp directory
> and my script is simply send on file.tex (without any path) which gives
> an error: it can't find it. Is it possible to send TEMPDIR/file.tex
> to the script instead of file.tex?
> 
> Ph. C.
> 

It seems that I am wrong.. the script is run on file.tex but probably after a cd
in TEMPDIR (my script needed the path to add [EMAIL PROTECTED] at the
begening of file.tex, but this is done by lyx in TEMPDIR). Then I have
to modify my script... 
Ph. C.

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