On Friday 02 September 2005 23:33, Jane McKean wrote: > To accomplish this as part of the build, I need a command line > equivalent (and it could be multiple command lines) for each of these > methods. > > - The command-line equivalent for View > PDF (dvipdfm) > > - The command-line equivalent for View > PDF (latexpdf)
That is a good question that I have seen answered sometimes on this list. :-) Searching... $ lyx --help Usage: lyx [ command line switches ] [ name.lyx ... ] Command line switches (case sensitive): -help summarize LyX usage -userdir dir try to set user directory to dir -sysdir dir try to set system directory to dir -geometry WxH+X+Y set geometry of the main window -dbg feature[,feature]... select the features to debug. Type `lyx -dbg' to see the list of features -x [--execute] command where command is a lyx command. -e [--export] fmt where fmt is the export format of choice. -i [--import] fmt file.xxx where fmt is the import format of choice and file.xxx is the file to be imported. -version summarize version and build info Check the LyX man page for more details. Now this is the funny part, the _fmt_ key that we are searching for is defined in: Edit->Preferences->File Formats, look then for format. In my case I have 3 defined pdf formats. Using pdf2 I get: $ lyx -e pdf2 spyce.lyx Document exported as PDF (pdflatex) to file `~/thunderbird/level-3/spyce.pdf' $ lyx -e pdf3 spyce.lyx Executing command:dvipdfm -p letter 'spyce.dvi' spyce.dvi -> spyce.pdf [1] 55669 bytes written Document exported as PDF (dvipdfm) to file `~/thunderbird/level-3/spyce.pdf' Bingo. :-) > Has anyone tried doing something like this? Is anyone currently > generating their docs as part of a source code build with build script? > > Many thanks in advance, > > -- > Jane McKean -- José Abílio