"Jean-Marc" == Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
"Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Angus> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
But can this really happen, or is it just a theoretical question?
Angus> (Aside: as a mathematician, I though you found theory Angus> important?)
Jean-Marc> Well as somebody who does modeling, I start by doing the Jean-Marc> computations in an informal way, and if it leads me to some Jean-Marc> interesting result, then I care about actually proving Jean-Marc> things. This is probably analog to the 'premature Jean-Marc> optimization' mantra for programming...
To be more precise, there are currently some bugs with for example dvi or html export which can only be worked around by not using a tempdir. So before forcing everyone to use a tempdir, I would like to understand how are these things going to be handled. In particular, I am not sure I understand what is the new philosophy for the include inset.
I've had one problem that forced me to not use temp dirs:
Latex code (in ERT or in the preamble or in the preamble/textstyles of a custom document layout) may use \input, \includegraphics, or some other command that opens a user-provided file from the working directory or from some subdirectory thereof.
The real-life example: I wrote a textbook on algorithms, using a custom layout. One of the paragraph types was "tip", which included an image of a little lightbulb in the margin. This was fetched from a subdirectory "graphichs" under the working directory. There where several other iamges in that directory too, such as a chapter-page graphic.
I cannot see how lyx could possibly "know" how to bring along such things into a tempdir. And don't suggest absolute paths either, the book was in a directory that different users nfs-mounted in different places. (i.e. wherever they saw fit under their own home directories).
Supporting this sort of thing is necessary. I can of course change they way I do my custom layouts and latex, but I know of no other way. Having some way to specify in the .layout file that "I need these subdirectories & files in the tempdir" would solve my problem.
Temp dirs are nice because they avoid a lot of cleaning up and cause less trouble when several users use the same working directory. Assuming
that generated files can be auto-deleted in a non-temp dir is probably
too dangerous. I'd like to use them - but I cannot currently.
Helge Hafting
