On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:41:42PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote: > Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The switch is intended to tell LyX what kind of path styles should > > be written to (and only to) latex files. > > > > When you use: The style of paths going to latex > > files should be: > > 1) LyX/Win32 and teTeX/Cygwin posix > > 2) LyX/Cygwin and MikTeX/Win32 windows > > 3) LyX/Win32 and MikTeX/Win32 windows > > 4) LyX/Cygwin and teTeX/Cygwin posix > > > > So, IMHO, whatever the name, it should contain the word "latex". > > Why not be verbose: \latex_expects_backslashed_paths
No, only forward slashes should be used for paths in a latex file. > Incidentally, this would appear to be something that's testable. Is there a > test > in configure.py? Yes, this is already taken care in configure.py and it works well. When cygwin is detected, a test is performed on the kind of path styles the TeX engine accepts. -- Enrico