On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:30:04 +0000 (UTC) Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > - # Put here the conversions needed from LaTeX string > > - # to LyXText: > > + # Put here the conversions needed from LaTeX string to LyXText: > > + # Umlauted characters: > > + fullcontent = fullcontent.replace(r'\\\"a', > > u'ä').replace(r'\\\"o', > u'ö').replace(r'\\\"u', u'ü') > > + # Same German style: > > + fullcontent = fullcontent.replace(r'"a', u'ä').replace(r'"o', > u'ö').replace(r'"u', u'ü') > > This doesn't look very robust. What about Noël/No\"el?. Can't you make use of > a tool that's dedicated to this type of conversion, like recode? > > http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/recode/recode_13.html > > Angus Except that this isn't just a charset conversion problem, but a general latex -> lyxtext one. Been thinking about using tex2lyx... rather would avoid that. I would be happy if the common use cases are handled transparently, and the less common ones without crash or data loss, with some manual patch-up at most. - Martin
