* Ken wrote, On 28/07/09 12:28: > Hi all, > > I have a simple question which I could not find an answer to online to > which I was hoping an experienced LyX user may know the solution. > > When I click on "File > Export > PDF (pdflatex)" the .pdf file gets > generated in the same folder as the .lyx file. Would it be possible to > have the .pdf file generated in a sub-directory of this folder--say, a > folder named "./pdf" or "./export"? (I like saving my figures in a > sub-directory and would similarly like the pdfs to automatically be > saved in a subfolder so that only .lyx files are in the main directory > for the project. > > Related to the above, when I click on "View > PDF (pdflatex)" the .pdf > file gets generated in a temporary folder. Would if be possible to > have these generated in a sub-directory of the folder where the .lyx > file resides--say, a folder named "./draft"? Would it be possible to > add a date prefix to the filename too? This would be so that I could > save pdf drafts of the file. > > How would I change the settings for these? (NB. I am a LyX 1.6.3 user > on Windows XP).
I guess you look at your Lyx preferences File Handling, Converters. For "Latex (plain) -> DVI" I guess you could change the converter from "latex" to "c:\bin\latex-dvi.bat $$i $$o" and your batch file could be: @echo off mkdir draft latex %1 %2 move %2 draft Or something along those lines; and do likewise your your other converters Sam
