X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4EE0D2F3.1090606@cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:08:35 -0500 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111105 Thunderbird/8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] CALL FOR TESTING: Cygwin 1.7.10 References: <566vd7hfmi3j980ic4m64d7bv91b5qm6uh@4ax.com> <20111207173808.GA25743@calimero.vinschen.de> <20111207180653.GB25743@calimero.vinschen.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 12/8/2011 9:48 AM, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > Andy Koppe writes: >> >> On 8 December 2011 00:33, Enrico Forestieri wrote: >>> Corinna Vinschen writes: >>>> >>>> Just so it's clear why I did that, maybe you want to have a look into >>>> the brief discussion on the cygwin-developers list: >>>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2011-11/msg00000.html >>> >>> All good reasons, but you are going to break backward compatibility. >>> At least, lyx is going to be affected. It currently works with unicode >>> without a glitch >> >> That's impossible if it's using Ansi APIs. > > That is not the issue. No Windows API is directly used, but there is the > need to convert from posix to Windows paths when the TeX engine is native > Windows. The assumption that cygwin_conv_path does not change the encoding > is made (this is so until 1.7.9) and if this is going to change it will cause > havoc. Indeed, the path should be written to the latex file according to the > encoding used (e.g., \usepackage[cp852]{inputenc}), and lyx takes care of the > needed conversion. But, if the encoding is changed by cygwin_conv_path ... I don't use lyx (though I use tex extensively), so maybe there's something I don't understand. But is it really necessary for Cygwin's lyx to support a native Windows tex? Wouldn't it be more reasonable for users of a native Windows tex to use a native Windows lyx? Ken -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple