On Tue, 20 Nov 2007 08:58:47 +0200
Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
A bit like the attached. We're still not out of the woods though --
e.g., \see doesn't get handled.
- Martin
Index: lyx_1_6.py
===================================================================
--- lyx_1_6.py (revision 21680)
+++ lyx_1_6.py (working copy)
@@ -363,8 +363,11 @@
document.body[i:i + 2] = ["\\begin_inset Index",
"status collapsed",
"\\begin_layout standard"]
- # Put here the conversions needed from LaTeX string
- # to LyXText:
+ # Put here the conversions needed from LaTeX string to LyXText:
+ # Umlauted characters (most common ones):
+ fullcontent = fullcontent.replace(r'\\\"a', u'ä').replace(r'\\\"o', u'ö').replace(r'\\\"u', u'ü')
+ # Generic, \" -> ":
+ fullcontent = fullcontent.replace(r'\"', '\n\\begin_inset ERT\nstatus collapsed\n\\begin_layout standard\n"\n\\end_layout\n\\end_inset\n')
# Math:
r = re.compile('^(.*?)(\$.*?\$)(.*)')
g = fullcontent
@@ -374,11 +377,15 @@
f = m.group(2).replace('\\\\', '\\')
g = m.group(3)
if s:
+ # this is non-math!
+ s = s.replace(r'\\', '\n\\begin_inset ERT\nstatus collapsed\n\\begin_layout standard\n\\backslash\n\\end_layout\n\\end_inset\n')
document.body.insert(i + 3, s)
i += 1
document.body.insert(i + 3, "\\begin_inset Formula " + f)
document.body.insert(i + 4, "\\end_inset")
i += 2
+ # Generic, \\ -> \backslash:
+ g = g.replace(r'\\', '\n\\begin_inset ERT\nstatus collapsed\n\\begin_layout standard\n\\backslash\n\\end_layout\n\\end_inset\n')
document.body.insert(i + 3, g)
document.body[i + 4] = "\\end_layout"
i = i + 5
