On Wednesday 09 October 2002 10:57 am, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Angus> On Wednesday 09 October 2002 9:10 am, Rod Pinna wrote: > >> > Perhaps this'll do it ;-) > \converter epsi eps "if [ $$i > >> > != $$o > >> > >> ]; then cp -f $$i $$o; > fi" "" > >> > >> Sorry all, I totally forgot to follow this up. Anyways, I > >> tried this with 122cvs (from a few days ago now) and it > >> worked well for me, as far as i can see. > >> > >> One question, what happens if $$i=$$o? > > Angus> The converter returns an exit status of 0 (success) > having done Angus> nothing. Since you told me that LaTeX is > perfectly happy with Angus> your epsi files, then this should > be sufficient to overcome any Angus> pedantry on the part of > LyX and just let things work. > > OK, I think we have to stop and think a bit here. As far as I > understand the situation, the detection of epsi files has been > added to lyx 1.2.1 because there were some epsi files that > dvips (or is it convert?) could not digest easily. So the idea > at this time was to use eps2eps to strip out the preview from > epsi files and make them work effortlessly. However, there are > problems with that
Sure. I was just trying to give Rod something that would work for him. I believe I sent the 'cp' fix to him personally, not to the list and only after he told me that LaTeX could deal with his epsi files. > Therefore, I see two solutions: [snip] Actually, since it is us that invokes the converter, why don't we ensure that file names are unique. Eg static int counter = 0; string const tofilebase = tostr(++counter) + ...; Angus