On Saturday 06 June 2009 02:02:25 am John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> Often proceedings give authors sample .tex files to demonstrate how a
> paper should be formatted. I generally want to make my preamble as
> close as possible the sample. Usually I can trick LyX into generating
> something pretty close to the sample preamble, but before submitting
> manually tweak the .tex file to remove unneeded options etc. For lolz,
> I spend a couple of days in LyX getting the pagination just right,
> then discover that the pagination changes once I manually fix the
> preabmle in the .tex file. Additionally, it is much faster to
> cut-and-paste a preamble than it is to hunt round in LyX to find all
> the options. For these reasons, I use a wrapper script around
> pdflatex like the one below.
>
> However I was wondering if this sounds like a good feature for LyX itself?
>
> My suggested implementation would be that you can set an option in
> Document Settings->LaTeX Preamble like "edit whole preamble". When
> this option is set LyX copies the whole preamble into the text box,
> and allows the user to edit it as normal text.
>
> -- pdflatex --
> #!/bin/bash
> THIS_SCRIPT="$0"
> echo AT "$@"
> echo AT "$@" 1>&2
> echo AT "$@" > /tmp/AT
>
> echo "$*" | grep -o '\b[^ ]*.tex' | head -n1 | (
> read texfile
> echo TEXFILE $texfile
> mv $texfile $texfile.orig
> grep '^%PREAM ' $texfile.orig | sed 's/^%PREAM //' > $texfile
> "$THIS_SCRIPT".strip_preamble.py < $texfile.orig >> $texfile
> /usr/bin/pdflatex "$@"
> rm $texfile.mod
> mv $texfile $texfile.mod
> mv $texfile.orig $texfile
> )
>
> -- pdflatex.strip_preamble.py --
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> import sys
>
> preamble=True;
> for line in sys.stdin:
> if preamble:
> if line == '\\begin{document}\n':
> preamble=False
> print line,
> else:
> print line,
Stylesheets provided by others are always a good thing. Who wants to decide on
formatting when someone else can make the decision? (unless of course you're
selling the result directly to the public).
Drop-in LaTeX stylesheets would be a great LyX feature if a large number of
LyX users would use it. Otherwise it should probably be a script, which
you've already made.
I had trouble visualizing everything your script does. Does it take into
account a layout file with multiple Preample/EndPreamble pairs?
Thanks
SteveT
Steve Litt
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