On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 09:33:42PM +0100, Herbert Voss wrote: > Georg Baum schrieb: > > Am Sonntag, 5. November 2006 19:22 schrieb Herbert Voss: > >> I am interested in seeing how someone will parse a tex source, where > >> _every_ macro or environment can be hide after several other macros > >> or catcode changes ... > > > > Impossible IMHO. It is possible to create a tex2lyx that works perfectly > > for most _usual_ documents (no catcode games, no redefinition of standard > > macros with different semantics), and tex2lyx is in some areas close to > > that, but if you consider changed catcodes and macros you get a real mess. > > Every thesis without catcode stuff has a _lot_ of redefinitions in the > preamble. As I said, it is lost time and work for such a converter > which will only work for some (short) documents ... and it confuses > the users, when there is a tex2lyx, which works sometimes ...
Better a half-working tex2lyx than no way to import LaTeX at all. Andre'
