Hi Murat, thanks for replying. My example was only to illustrate that
there seems to be a bug when defining converters.
Thanks for reminding me about branches though.
Bogdan.
On 02-Jan-12 6:30 am, Murat Yildizoglu wrote:
Hi Bogdan,
I have not yet used it myself but, it seems that this is a typical
situation to be handled with branches in Lyx, no?
One branch for only the questions and another one for questions and
answers? SO, you can selectively compile the branch that interests you.
2012/1/2 Bogdan <bog...@mentalgate.net <mailto:bog...@mentalgate.net>>
Actually, I just discovered that the expansion of $$i is put at the
end of the actual command LyX launches no matter what I use for the
converter command, e.g. if the converter command is:
pdflatexna $$i 20 20
then LyX is actually executing:
pdflatexna 20 20 sheet.tex
Nasty :)
Bogdan.
On 02-Jan-12 12:08 am, Bogdan wrote:
As part of my course, I've been traditionally maintaining a problem
sheet in latex and compile two versions, one with answers, and one
without. To achieve that, I hide the answers based on whether a
certain
variable was defined in latex or not and then compile it
accordingly:
with answers: pdflatex sheet.tex
without answers: pdflatex "\def\noanswers{yes}\input{__sheet.tex}"
I defined a new converter in LyX do achieve the same but I could
not do
it without wrapping the 2nd command in a shell script (I'm using
windows). What I did:
- defined a new file format pdf6: PDF (pdflatex-na) with the same
settings as pdf2: PDF (pdflatex).
- defined a converter Latex (pdflatex) -> PDF (pdflatex-na) with the
following for converter: pdflatex "\def\noanswers{yes}\input{$$__i}"
Checking the lyx preferences file, I see it correctly escaped as:
\converter "pdflatex" "pdf6" "pdflatex
\"\\def\\noanswers{yes}\\__input{$$i}\"" "latex=pdflatex"
However, when I try to use it (update or export) then LyX
launches the
converter and keeps waiting for it to terminate. Investigating the
matter with a task manager like Process Hacker or Process
Explorer, in
order to see what command was actually executed, I notice that LyX
started a cmd shell which in fact executed the following:
pdflatex "\def\noanswers{yes}\input{ }" sheet.tex
Note the empty \input{} and the file name sheet.tex at the end,
instead
of inside \input{sheet.tex}.
I tried with the other variables $$b.tex, $$p, $$r etc, to no avail.
Unless I'm missing something, this looks like a bug. Is there a
python
script anywhere that launches the cmd shell? It's probably there
and I
could fix it.
My workaround is to wrap the whole thing in a cmd script
pdflatexna.bat
placed in lyx/bin with the contents:
@pdflatex "\def\noanswers{yes}\input{%~__1}"
(the %~1 instead of %1 is to strip any double quotes)
... and then use the following command for the converter:
pdflatexna $$i
Cheers,
Bogdan.
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