On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 08:26:56PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
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> I have forwarded your msg to the devel lyx.
>
> I am sure our DocBook person will answer your questions.
That appears to be me. :-)
> Lgb
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> From: "Andrew S. Townley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Lars Gullik =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8nnes?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: new prerelease LyX-1.0.4pre6
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> Hi. I have been using lyx for several months now (again, actually. I
> had used it a long time ago as well), but the main thing that I am using
> it for right now is to generate SGML for publication in both PS and HTML
> formats. I am very pleased to see how well the DocBook support is
> progressing, but I was wondering about a couple of things:
>
> 1) In the finished DocBook support, will we be able to use tables and
> images in lyx and have them appear appropriately in both the PS and HTML
> output? In playing with the DocBook support, I noticed that the tables
> were at least available, but when they were translated to HTML, they
> didn't have the appropriate HTML formatting.
The first thing you should notice is that I'm trying to map one to one
every LyX feature with a DocBook feature.
So the Figure float is converted to a figure, where the caption goes to
the figure title. There is also the same analogy with Table floats, the
table floats are the (formal) tables (this means that they have a title),
and the true tables are translated as informal tables (no title).
What is missing now is the support for informal tables (the real ones).
So for now the text for tables is dumped but not formatted, that is the
issue that I'm working now.
> 2) Images were really strange: if I used formats that LyX understands,
> they aren't displayable by the browsers. Is there some sort of a plan
> to be able to support more image formats and have LyX deal with the
> appropriate conversions when the SGML is exported?
The only format that LyX supports now are eps figures, the postfix is
stripped and the stylesheets take care of the right graphics extension.
That is if the graphics name end as ".eps" this extension is removed
and lyx only export to sgml the remaing word.
This works very well for me, the default extension for html (as an example)
is gif, but this can be configured.
You need to have two graphics, one in eps for dvi backend (printing)
inclusion, and other in another format suitable for html inclusion.
> My goal is to be able to use LyX for the creation of Functional
> Specifications as well as user documentation for some of our internally
> developed tools. Right now, I don't have a really good tool that will
> allow me to quickly create documents that are publishable in HTML but
> that also provide a really good version for printing.
There is some work that needs to be done to improve the docbook support.
The future stable series 1.2 will be a major step in the right direction,
there are several concepts now that only can be expressed as verbatim
sgml code.
Any comments are welcome, thanks.
> If you're not the correct person to ask, I'm sorry to bother you. With
> each new release of the DocBook-aware LyX, I'm just getting more
> hopeful... :)
>
> Thanks for your time,
>
> ast
>
I send as attachments a lyx file, that is the predecessor of the future
docbook example file.
--
José
