On 05/16/2011 06:12 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: > On 16/05/2011 6:11 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >> On 05/16/2011 05:45 PM, Julien Rioux wrote: >>> On 16/05/2011 5:39 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >>>> On 05/16/2011 04:05 PM, Venable wrote: >>>>> >>>>> What are some of the alternative ways to define a converter, and what >>>>> are the sort of details that would be useful to know in deciding? >>>>> >>>> Converters are defined under Tools>Preferences>File >>>> Handing>Converters. >>>> See section 3.3 of the Customization manual for the details of the >>>> syntax. Basically, any stupid script can act as a converter. It just >>>> needs to take certain arguments, and you need to tell LyX what they >>>> are. >>>> Lots of converters are already defined there, so you can also mimic >>>> them. >>>> >>> >>> However, the converter is executed in a temporary folder, which is >>> precisely what the user wanted to avoid (and the reason to write the >>> script in the first place). I miss how you can get around this. >>> >> Sorry, I must have missed that part. >> > > I believe copiers could help here, but I do not understand them/never > used them. > Well, I guess we'll see, but on reading this again it looks as if the problem was supposed to be that certain of his scripts fail because of the copying to a tempdir. I guess my thought must have been that this could be done by running the script in the tempdir, but then maybe you have to know where the original file lives.
Richard
