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

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