#LyX 1.6.0svn created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
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\begin_layout Standard
-The first step is to define your file formats, e.g.
- PDF, if they are not already defined.
+The first step is to define your file formats if they are not already defined.
To do so, open the
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-\bar under
-T
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-ools\SpecialChar \menuseparator
-
-\bar under
-P
-\bar default
-references:Converters
+Tools\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Preferences:Converters
\family default
dialog.
- Enter a new format name; a new GUI name (used in, e.g., the View and Export
+ Enter a new format name; a new GUI name (used in e.\InsetSpace \thinspace{}
+g.\InsetSpace ~
+the
+\family sans
+View
+\family default
+ and
+\family sans
+Export
+\family default
menus); and a file extension.
These are required.
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
-There are also two flags that can be set using the checkboxes in the dialog.
- The
-\family typewriter
-document
+The
+\family sans
+Document format
\family default
- flag tells LyX that a format is suitable for document export.
- If this flag is set for a format, and if a suitable conversion route exists,
- then the format will appear in the
+ option tells LyX that a format is suitable for document export.
+ If this is is set and if a suitable conversion route exists, the format
+ will appear in the
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-\bar under
-F
-\bar default
-ile\SpecialChar \menuseparator
-
-\bar under
-E
-\bar default
-xport
+File\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Export
\family default
menu.
The format will also appear in the
\family sans
-\bar under
-V
-\bar default
-iew
+View
\family default
- menu if it has a viewer associated with it.
- (See below.) Pure image formats (e.g.\InsetSpace ~
+ menu if it has a specified viewer.
+ Pure image formats, e.\InsetSpace \thinspace{}
+g.\InsetSpace ~
\family typewriter
png
\family default
-) should not have this flag set; formats that can both represent vector
- graphics and documents (e.g.\InsetSpace ~
+, should not use this option.
+ Formats that can both represent vector graphics and documents like e.\InsetSpace \thinspace{}
+g.\InsetSpace ~
\family typewriter
pdf
\family default
-) should have it set.
+ should use it.
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
-The
-\family typewriter
-vector
+The option
+\family sans
+Vector graphics format
\family default
- flag tells LyX whether a format can contain vector graphics.
+ tells LyX that a format can contain vector graphics.
This information is used to determine the target format of included graphics
for
-\family typewriter
+\family sans
pdflatex
\family default
export.
Included graphics may need to be converted to either
-\family typewriter
+\family sans
pdf
\family default
,
-\family typewriter
+\family sans
png
\family default
- or
-\family typewriter
+, or
+\family sans
jpg
\family default
, since
-\family typewriter
+\family sans
pdflatex
\family default
cannot handle other image formats.
If an included graphic is not already in
-\family typewriter
+\family sans
pdf
\family default
,
-\family typewriter
+\family sans
png
\family default
- or
-\family typewriter
+, or
+\family sans
jpg
\family default
format, it is converted to
-\family typewriter
+\family sans
pdf
\family default
- if the
-\family typewriter
-vector
-\family default
- flag of the format is set, and otherwise to
-\family typewriter
+ if the vector format option is set, and otherwise to
+\family sans
png
\family default
.
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
-A Format can have a Viewer associated with it.
+A Format can have a Viewer and Editor program associated with it.
For example, you might want to use
-\family typewriter
-ghostview
-\family default
- to look at PostScript® files, or
-\family typewriter
-xdvi
-\family default
- to preview the LaTeX output.
- You can enter the program to use as a viewer (and what options to pass
- to it) in the Viewer field.
- You can also modify the viewer associated with a pre-defined format simply
- by changing what you find in this field, clicking the
\family sans
-Modify
+Ghostview
\family default
- button, and then (if you're sure you want to do this) clicking the
+ to view PostScript files.
+ You can enter the program call and its options to the corresponding fields.
+ For the call you can use the four variable listed in the next section.
+ The viewer is launched when you view an image in LyX or use the
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-Apply
-\family default
- or
-\family sans
-Save
+View
\family default
- button.
-\begin_inset Foot
-status collapsed
+ menu.
+ If the operating system has a default viewer associated to a format, this
+ viewer is used instead of the one defined here when you enter in the Viewer
+ field
+\begin_inset Quotes eld
+\end_inset
-\begin_layout Standard
-Changes to the formats are kept in the
-\family typewriter
-preferences
-\family default
- file in you local LyX directory (for example,
-\family typewriter
-$HOME/.lyx/
+
+\family sans
+auto
\family default
-).
- If you want to restore the defaults, edit this file and delete the lines
- in the Formats and Converters sections.
-\end_layout
+\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset
- For example, to change the
-\family typewriter
-dvi
-\family default
- viewer, select the
-\family typewriter
-DVI
-\family default
- format in the dialog, change the viewer to be
-\family typewriter
-kdvi
+.
+ The editor is for example launched when you press the
+\family sans
+Edit
\family default
- (or whatever), and hit
+ button in the
\family sans
-\bar under
-M
-\bar default
-odify
+Graphics
\family default
-.
-\end_layout
-
-\begin_layout Standard
-If the operating system has a default viewer associated to a format, this
- viewer is used instead of the one defined here in the Windows® and OS X
- versions of LyX.
- (It is planned to implement this feature on other platforms.)
-\end_layout
-
-\begin_layout Standard
-Editors are like viewers: Each Format can have an Editor associated to it,
- entered in the Editor field, and the editor associated with a format can
- be altered via the
+ or the
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-\bar under
-T
-\bar default
-ools\SpecialChar \menuseparator
-
-\bar under
-P
-\bar default
-references:Converters
+External material
\family default
dialog.
- LyX will launch the associated editor whenever an included file
-\begin_inset Foot
-status collapsed
-
-\begin_layout Standard
-This can be an included
-\family typewriter
-.tex
-\family default
- file, a verbatim included text file, external material or an included graphics
- file.
-\end_layout
-
-\end_inset
-
- needs to be edited.
\end_layout
\begin_layout Subsection
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
-Each Format can have a Copier associated with it.
+Each format can have a Copier associated with it.
These are defined in the
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-\bar under
-T
-\bar default
-ools\SpecialChar \menuseparator
-
-\bar under
-P
-\bar default
-references:Copiers
+Tools\SpecialChar \menuseparator
+Preferences:Copiers
\family default
dialog.
- Since all conversions from one Format to another take place in LyX's temporary
+ Since all conversions from one format to another take place in LyX's temporary
directory, it is sometimes necessary to modify a file before copying it
to the temporary directory in order that the conversion may be performed.
\begin_inset Foot
This is done by the Copier: It copies a file to (or from) the temporary
directory and may modify it in the process.
-
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
Copiers may also be used for other purposes.
For example, if appropriate converters are found, LyX will automatically
- install copiers for the html and wordhtml formats.
- When these formats are exported, the copier sees to it that not just the
- main HTML file but various associated files (style files, images, and the
- like) are also copied, and all these files are written to a subdirectory
- of the directory in which the original LyX file was found.
- The copier may of course be customized.
- The optional -e argument takes a comma-separated list of extensions to
- be copied; if it is omitted, all files will be copied.
- The -t argument determines the extension added to the generated directory.
+ install copiers for the
+\family sans
+HTML
+\family default
+ and
+\family sans
+HTML\InsetSpace ~
+(MS Word)
+\family default
+ formats.
+ When these formats are exported, the copier sees that not just the main
+ HTML file but various associated files (style files, images, etc.) are also
+ copied.
+ All these files are written to a subdirectory of the directory in which
+ the original LyX file was found.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+Copier can of course be customized.
+ The optional
+\begin_inset Quotes eld
+\end_inset
+
+-e
+\begin_inset Quotes erd
+\end_inset
+
+ argument takes a comma-separated list of extensions to be copied; if it
+ is omitted, all files will be copied.
+ The
+\begin_inset Quotes eld
+\end_inset
+
+-t
+\begin_inset Quotes erd
+\end_inset
+
+ argument determines the extension added to the generated directory.
By default, it is
\begin_inset Quotes eld
\end_inset
+
+\family sans
LyXconv
+\family default
+
\begin_inset Quotes erd
\end_inset
, so HTML generated from
-\family typewriter
+\family sans
/path/to/filename.lyx
\family default
will end up in
-\family typewriter
+\family sans
/path/to/filename.html.LyXconv
\family default
.
\begin_layout List
\labelwidthstring 00.00.0000
-$$s The LyX system directory (e.g.,
-\family typewriter
+$$s The LyX system directory (e.\InsetSpace \thinspace{}
+g.\InsetSpace ~
+
+\family sans
/usr/share/lyx
\family default
).
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
-The latter is to be given in a form suitable for inclusion in a LaTeX
-\family typewriter
+The latter is to be given in a form suitable for inclusion in a LaTeX's
+
+\series bold
\backslash
include
-\family default
+\series default
command and is relevant only when exporting files suitable for such inclusion.
\end_layout
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
-To define a converter from one format to another---e.g., LaTeX to PDF---select
- the Converters panel.
- Choose the `From' and `To' formats, and then enter the program to be used
- in the conversion in the Converter field.
-
+To define a new converter, select an existing one, select a different format
+ in the
+\family sans
+From\InsetSpace ~
+format
+\family default
+ and\InsetSpace \thinspace{}
+/\InsetSpace \thinspace{}
+or
+\family sans
+To\InsetSpace ~
+format
+\family default
+ drop-down list, modify the
+\family sans
+Converter
+\family default
+ field, and press the
+\family sans
+Add
+\family default
+ button.
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
-You do not have to define converters between all the Formats between which
+You do not have to define converters between all the formats between which
you want to convert.
- For example, you will note that there is no `LyX to PostScript®' converter,
- but LyX will export PostScript®.
+ For example, you will note that there is no `LyX to PostScript' converter,
+ but LyX will export PostScript.
It does so by first creating a LaTeX file (no converter needs to be defined
- for this) which it then converts to DVI using the `LaTeX to DVI' converter,
- and then it converts the resulting DVI file to PostScript®.
+ for this) which is then converted to DVI using the `LaTeX to DVI' converter,
+ and finally converts the resulting DVI file to PostScript.
LyX finds such `chains' of converters automatically, and it will always
- choose the shortest chain possible.
+ choose the shortest possible chain.
You can, though, still define multiple conversion methods between file
formats.
For example, the standard LyX configuration provides three ways to convert
- LaTeX to PDF: Directly, using pdflatex; via (DVI and) PostScript®, using
- ps2pdf; or via DVI, using dvipdfm.
+ LaTeX to PDF: Directly, using
+\family sans
+pdflatex
+\family default
+; via (DVI and) PostScript, using
+\family sans
+ps2pdf
+\family default
+; or via DVI, using
+\family sans
+dvipdfm
+\family default
+.
To define such alternate chains, you must define multiple target `file
- formats'.
- In the standard configuration, for example, formats named `pdf', `pdf2',
- and `pdf3' are defined, all of which share the extension `pdf'.
-
+ formats', as described in the next section.
+ For example in the standard configuration the formats named
+\family sans
+pdf
+\family default
+,
+\family sans
+pdf2
+\family default
+, and
+\family sans
+pdf3
+\family default
+ are defined, all of which share the extension
+\family sans
+.pdf
+\family default
+.
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
\begin_layout List
\labelwidthstring 00.00.0000
-$$s The LyX system directory (e.g.,
-\family typewriter
-/usr/share/lyx
-\family default
-).
+$$s The LyX system directory
\end_layout
\begin_layout List
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
-In the `Extra Flag' field you can enter as many of the following flags as
- you wish, separated by commas:
+In the
+\family sans
+Extra\InsetSpace ~
+Flag
+\family default
+ field you can enter the following flags, separated by commas:
\end_layout
\begin_layout List
\labelwidthstring 00.00.0000
latex This converter runs some form of LaTeX.
- (This will make LyX's LaTeX error logs available.)
+ This will make LyX's LaTeX error logs available.
\end_layout
\begin_layout List
\labelwidthstring 00.00.0000
-needaux Needs the LaTeX .aux file for the conversion.
+needaux Needs the LaTeX
+\family sans
+.aux
+\family default
+ file for the conversion.
\end_layout
\begin_layout List
\end_layout
\begin_layout Standard
-The following three variables are not really flags at all but take an argument
- in the
+The following three flags are not really flags at all because they take
+ an argument in the
\family sans
key\InsetSpace ~
-= value
+=\InsetSpace ~
+value
\family default
- format.
+ format:
\end_layout
\begin_layout List
\begin_layout List
\labelwidthstring 00.00.0000
-resultfile Determines the output filename and may, again, contain $$b.
+resultfile Determines the output filename and may, contain $$b.
Sensible only with resultdir, and optional even then; if not given, it
defaults to `index'.
-
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\begin_layout Standard
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