Jürgen Spitzmüller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My proposal: Add an output flavor PLATEX, add a new file format "LaTeX > (pLaTeX)" and respective converters to PDF and DVI, and if japanese is > required (we store that in LaTeXFeatures) use this flavor, which lets LyX > automatically pass those converters to the scripts instead of latex and > pdflatex.
Hi, Jürgen. Thank you for your reply. I still do not understand the flavor mechanism well. Could you please tell me how LyX automatically detect if Japanese platex is required ? I can not find any automatic way to select flavor PLATEX between PLATEX and LATEX. It is impossible to select flavor by means of file extention; The file extenstion of platex file (.tex) is the same as that of latex file. It might be possible to determine flavor by a class file name that a user specified. However, class files have not been activated in the conventional LyX. This is the most crucial problem in the conventional LyX for platex users. Therefore, there should be a way for platex users to specify flavor manually, say, in a GUI panel. In the previous patch, I used the LaTeX -> DVI converter to specify 'flavor'. Then, it is obvious that the user wants to use platex. Even though you introduce PLATEX flaver, only defference between PLATEX and LATEX is lyx::theConverter::latex_converter_ . Reconfigure panel will be another chance to specify the flavor. Thank you. Tetsuya Makimura
