>>To: Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: Search Path for dvips >>Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 11:54:15 -0700 >>From: Dave Tweten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>Initially quoting me, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >>>>This suggests one way for LyX itself and for the Ports LyX >>>>installation to have avoided the problem, by making >>>>/usr/local/share/lyx/clipart and ~/.lyx/clipart be links to >>>>directories that are already on the correct Kpathsea search >>>>paths. >> >>>I do not know, why should this be done universally for LyX itself. >> >>Here's a reason. If LyX is going to create directories whose name and whose >>provided contents (in the case of /usr/local/share/lyx/clipart) suggest that >>they are for commonly used graphic information, the directories should work. >>You can't even use platypus.eps from the global file by default, and the LyX >>distribution put it there! For LyX's own documentation to work, the >>installation has to put another copy of platypus.eps with the documentation >>files. If the directories are not going to be made to work within LyX, they >>shouldn't be created by LyX at all. It's that simple. >> >>>As I understand LyX it is not meant to be the tool for the most >>>stupidiest user ... >> >>No offense taken. :-) >> >>>For example, I do not want to have this done by deafult, because I >>>think that ~/.lyx/clipart has nothing to do with my images which are >>>somewhere else. >> >>A reasonable position. Perhaps then LyX shouldn't create ~/.lyx/clipart when >>you first run it. Why create useless cruft whose only effect is to waste >>users' valuable time? >> >>I don't really care if clipart is made to work or if it is removed, although I >>guess I prefer made to work. The important point is that being there and >>working ought to be strongly linked. You should get both or neither. >>--
My feeling is that anyone willing to use LyX/LaTeX should be aware anyway of the seach file mechanism and be able to tune it by one of the desribed methods (texmf.cnf editing, TEXINPUTS setting, \graphicspath for graphics users - those NOT using graphics should be quite seldom :-)). In that line, LyX copies at install time tex and clipart ditectories in ~/.lyx by default, but also in /usr/local/share/lyx for global access: it is clear that LyX can't know at that time if the admin is by him(her)self and will - set TEXINPUTS to .:$HOME//: (if not already set), appropriate if $HOME is not too big; - put /usr/local/share/lyx// in texmf.cnf - copy again averything into a approriate dir in the teTeX tree and run texhash... Of course, this file finding mechanism should be clearly documented. As I do not need it (I use the third method, whith sharing of the figures in the htdocs area), I don't know, but Herbert's help must give some hints I guess. -- Jean-Pierre
