Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I created the attached patch, based on your last one (dvi-search-3.diff). | It works for me (did only test xdvi). | In order to give the DVI file with source specials a different name I | defined the suffix of the new dvi2 format as dvix. This triggered a bug | in the current converter mechanism: It is always assumed that the output | file name of a converter can be set by a command line argument, but this | is not the case for e.g. latex. | I extended the converter mechanims to use the resultfile flag as output | file name for these converters, and rename the created file as needed. | This could also be useful for other converters. | One drawback of this solution compared to the original one is that an | existing dvi file in the temp dir will be overwritten (and then renamed) | if a dvi2 file is created. This could be easily solved by defining a | latex2 format and using that as source for dvi2 creation.
Why not use change the name of the file? Add a prefix or suffix or something? No playing around with the file extension. Or is it not possible to choose the exporter explictly, but must be done through file ext? -- Lgb