On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Uwe Brauer wrote:
"Christian" == Christian Ridderström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, rgheck wrote:
I mainly answered to your points in the other post but you mention some
interesting facts I did not know about.
> That sounds a lot like my old (not yet dead idea) of
> storing/editing LyX documents on a wiki. You would be able to open
> the "wiki pages" (documents) from LyX and edit them properly. When
> saving, it goes back to the server. However, simple editing can
> also be made possible directly through the wiki, with a crude
> version shown in the browser. Finally it'd be possible to tell the
> server to use LyX to directly produce a PDF-version of the
> document.
So this is already possible?
No, it's just an idea I've had for a long, long time.
> I'm primarily waiting for the LyX file format to migrate to XML.
That would be really great.
> As an aside, it is already possible to use an extension to the wiki
> that takes wiki pages, convert them to XML, converts that into LaTeX
> and finally runs LaTeX on the output to produce a PDF. It works pretty
> well.
Again, this solution already exists?
This solution exists. See here for instance
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/PublishPDF
Note that this plugin has not been installed on the LyX wiki, although it
could of course. There are also other plugins, but this is the one that
generates the PDF via LaTeX.
Well as I said this might be important for *huge* projects, but say for
short articles <= 50 pages and up to 5 authors is not necessarily.
Your idea of a _short_ article is very different from mine... :-)
> This is really what the a wiki page is. With pmwiki-mode for emacs
> I've implemented this functionality (it's relatively easy
> really[*]), and you can get a huge increase in efficiency.
Can you give me details on that please. I have enhanced a mode for
(X)emacs, wikipedia-mode.el, so I am interested in this issue. I presume
you use mozex as an interface for the editor?
I have no idea what mozex is... I took an old emacs mode and
converted/augmented it for use with our wiki engine on the LyX wiki. This
is what I used when originally creating the LyX wiki content. Much later,
after I'd stopped developing the mode, another guy took over and added
some cool stuff, but unfortunately he left it in a partially broken stage
as it's not possible to save pages currently :-(
If you know elisp you could fix it, or if I just had some time I could.
Anyway, if you write mathematical articles, you really want LyX...
/Christian
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