John C. McCabe-Dansted wrote: > I have decided to keep my grammar checker small, mostly just a wrapper > around ChkTeX and JLanguageTool. Thus my code is likely to remain small > enough to be included in LyX. However my prototype is easy to distribute > separately from LyX and does not require any (re)compiling or installing. > It would probably be best for my code to remain separate for the time > being.
Way to go, John! > I have changed this prototype to use the chktex error interface. I may > need to use IPC; I know LyX-server uses named pipes. Out of TCP sockets, > unnamed sockets, named pipes and unnamed pipes which are portable across > the architectures LyX supports? None of them :( In an ideal world we would use a platform-independent abstraction to the architecture-specific APIs. However, at the moment we don't use such a beast. Our named pipes code is to be found in src/lyxserver.C and is known to work on linux (and Mac I believe). It used not to work on the DEC Alpha. It definitely doesn't work on Windows. Our sockets code is to be found in src/lyxsocket.C. João abstracted out the Windows/Unix-specific stuff into the src/support library but, if I remember correctly, the Windows version is a stub only. Sorry I don't have time to play with this but I hope the information is useful. -- Angus
