This patch does two closely related things.

[lyx.git] / src / support / Systemcall.h

diff --git a/src/support/Systemcall.h b/src/support/Systemcall.h
index 71e4c6237d4bd218fc3695dbf27dffaa350854a5..876aa357b8b99aa79d5e0fc07d2897836dbd32ed 100644 (file)
--- a/src/support/Systemcall.h
+++ b/src/support/Systemcall.h
@@ -40,12 +40,17 @@ public:
 
        /** Start child process.
         *  The string "what" contains a commandline with arguments separated
-        *  by spaces. The string "path" contains the path to be prepended to
-        *  the TEXINPUTS environment variable. Unset "process_events" in
-        *  case UI should be blocked while processing the external command.
+        *  by spaces and encoded in the filesystem encoding. "$$s" will be
+        *  replaced accordingly by commandPrep(). The string "path" contains
+        *  the path to be prepended to the TEXINPUTS environment variable
+        *  encoded in utf-8. Similarly for the string "lpath" that, if not
+        *  empty, specifies an additional directory to be added to TEXINPUTS
+        *  but after "path". Unset "process_events" in case UI should be
+        *  blocked while  processing the external command.
         */
        int startscript(Starttype how, std::string const & what,
                        std::string const & path = empty_string(),
+                       std::string const & lpath = empty_string(),
                        bool process_events = false);
 };