Re: [Texmacs-dev] address@hidden: Bug#154150: command line export]

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> I received the following feature request, which seems sensible to me.

Yes, we should indeed automize file conversions.
Lyx has quite a clean system for this, which we might reproduce.
David: can you put this on the wish list. There has been a contribution
by Jorik Blaas too in "contributions" on the Wiki.

> BTW, did anyone contact the maintainer of the file(1) utility to
> add texmacs files? 

No... Would you be willing to do so?

<Joris>


> ----- Forwarded message from PUYDT Julien <address@hidden> -----
> 
> Subject: Bug#154150: command line export
> From: PUYDT Julien <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Date: 24 Jul 2002 16:23:24 +0200
> 
> Package: texmacs
> Version: 1.0.0.7-2
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> I would like to be able to type something like:
> texmacs -i paper.tm -o paper.ps
> and have my texmacs-typed paper ready for printing.
> 
> For your information, this is what lyx --help says:
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> LyX 1.1.6fix4 of Fri, Jan 11 2002
> 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.
> Check the LyX man page for more details.
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> That may be useful, for example, for a print filter: it detects a
> texmacs file (well, for the moment even 'file' doesn't recognize them),
> and converts it to a suitable format.
> 
> Snark on #texmacs
> 
> 
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