Leo Antunes <l...@costela.net> writes: > When configuring converters, what's the priority Lyx will give when > trying to convert an included graphic? If I have more than one > converters set-up for a given input format, with various output formats, > which one will Lyx prefer?
It chooses the shortest path, I think. > The case in point is trying to create a converter for Dot files, which > automatically parses them through dot2tex. This means Lyx would end-up > including an automatically produced LaTeX snippet. Is that even > possible? Do I need to figure out a way to first export this LaTeX to > some graphic format? As Julien pointed out, this should be done through the external material feature. > As a follow-up to this question, I've noticed Lyx still manages to > export a document with an included Dot file, even when I remove the > configured Dot converter. The default configured dot converter is a dot>pdf. When there is no converter, we fallback to ImageMagick's convert utility, which may handle dot files (I do not know). Look for the script convertDefault.py. JMarc
