On Friday 02 September 2005 23:33, Jane McKean wrote:
> To accomplish this as part of the build, I need a command line
> equivalent (and it could be multiple command lines) for each of these
> methods.
>
> - The command-line equivalent for View > PDF (dvipdfm)
>
> - The command-line equivalent for View > PDF (latexpdf)
That is a good question that I have seen answered sometimes on this list. :-)
Searching...
$ lyx --help
Usage: lyx [ command line switches ] [ name.lyx ... ]
Command line switches (case sensitive):
-help summarize LyX usage
-userdir dir try to set user directory to dir
-sysdir dir try to set system directory to dir
-geometry WxH+X+Y set geometry of the main window
-dbg feature[,feature]...
select the features to debug.
Type `lyx -dbg' to see the list of features
-x [--execute] command
where command is a lyx command.
-e [--export] fmt
where fmt is the export format of choice.
-i [--import] fmt file.xxx
where fmt is the import format of choice
and file.xxx is the file to be imported.
-version summarize version and build info
Check the LyX man page for more details.
Now this is the funny part, the _fmt_ key that we are searching for is
defined in: Edit->Preferences->File Formats, look then for format.
In my case I have 3 defined pdf formats. Using pdf2 I get:
$ lyx -e pdf2 spyce.lyx
Document exported as PDF (pdflatex) to file `~/thunderbird/level-3/spyce.pdf'
$ lyx -e pdf3 spyce.lyx
Executing command:dvipdfm -p letter 'spyce.dvi'
spyce.dvi -> spyce.pdf
[1]
55669 bytes written
Document exported as PDF (dvipdfm) to file `~/thunderbird/level-3/spyce.pdf'
Bingo. :-)
> Has anyone tried doing something like this? Is anyone currently
> generating their docs as part of a source code build with build script?
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> --
> Jane McKean
--
José Abílio
