Uwe St�hr wrote:
>> LyX has found a converter from gif to png format. It writes a
>> little shell script to do this and gets the shell to do the work.
>>
>> > #!/bin/sh
>>
>> [snipped the contents of the shell script...]
>>
>> All looks Ok. The script will take your file
>> C:/lyxdokumente/.lyx/clipart/Gauss.gif
>> and use 'convert' to generate
>
> The problem is, that I can't find any shell-script in the /bin
> directory.
LyX _generates_ the script and then tells the shell executable
(sh.exe?) to run it.
>> So, for reasons yet to be understood, LyX is either not creating
>> the shell script or isn't putting it in the expected place.
>
> I also can't find a lyxconvert1.sh.
That is the problem indeed.
> My converter is Imagemagick that is able to convert the gif images.
> I tested it manually. A assured that I have all permissions to all
> directories, so that shoulnd't be the the problem.
Good.
> My problem is possibly related to the lyx2lyx-script, which also
> doesn't work.
lyx2lyx is a python script. If you have python installed it should
work just fine.
It may sound like a mess (it probably is) but LyX uses perl, python
and shell scripts. Why? Well, that's because there are only a few of
us and each has different skills. All of us can hack together a shell
script because we're all used to the unix world. Jos� (the lyx2lyx
author) is a fluent python coder. Amir Karger (long gone) wrote reLyX
in perl. Indeed, one of the motivations for writing the replacement
tex2lyx in C++ was that none of us understand --- want to understand
--- perl.
> I've read on the list that it works on WinXP-machines, but I use
> Win2000pro. Maybe Ruurd has only tested the scripts under XP.
>
>> So, you have a working system, but it would be nice to understand
>> what is going wrong. Can you dig further?
Hmmm. I guess that you can't patch the source and recompile can you?
The problem is simply that the code isn't very informative:
// Output the script to file.
static int counter = 0;
script_file_ = OnlyPath(to_file_base) + "lyxconvert" +
tostr(counter++) + ".sh";
std::ofstream fs(script_file_.c_str());
if (!fs.good())
return;
fs << script.str();
fs.close();
Ie, if LyX is unable to open the file it doesn't issue a diagnostic
message...
--
Angus
