Jean-Pierre Chretien wrote: >>>Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 11:56:30 +0000 >>>To: [email protected] >>>From: Nick Hopton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>Subject: View HTML >>> >>>LyX for Windows, latest Alpha release (1.5.0svn) >>> >>>If I want to view a document as HTML (View -> HTML) I have to first go >>>to Preferences and delete 'originaldir,needaux' from the 'LaTeX (plain) >>>-> HTML', 'Extra flag:' box.
Why do you need to delete needaux? >>>Would it be possible for new Alpha versions to be shipped without these >>>extra flags so that View -> HTML would work out of the box? > > Sure, but then Export->HTML would be broken, take a look at bug #643 > http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643 > > The question seems still open... The problem is that the originaldir flag is broken (and was from the very beginning IIRC), and nobody took the time to investigate how a good solution would look like. Georg
