Jose' Matos wrote: > On Friday 16 July 2004 08:52, Fernando Perez wrote: >> >> Ages ago I wrote lyxport (http://www-hep.colorado.edu/~fperez/lyxport/), >> a perl script which does lyx/tex->html/pdf/ps. It works reasonably hard >> to handle various problems with the conversions, image formats, etc. I >> still find documents (http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/manual for example) >> which LyX doesn't handle out of the box, but which lyxport manages to >> plow through. > > You mean that you the guy of Ipython (which btw I use, thanks for a really > usefull project) wrote a perl script for lyx. OK, I lost one more idol. ;-)
Easy there, I haven't written a line of perl since 2001. So cut me some slack, we all have a dark past hidden somewhere. At least give me some credit for coming out and offering my head in public shame by confessing on Usenet :) >> Feel free to snag it for your idea if you think it may help. It's far >> from perfect (it's in perl, for one :), but it might save you guys some >> time. > > OK, I see that not all is lost. ;-) :-D > > Now seriously, is there any relation with between lyxport and tex2pdf that > also seems to do the same thing? I am trying to access their homepage but > the connection is failing. Yes, lyxport was born from the original tex2pdf, back when it was a really small, hackish sh script. I basically rewrote it in perl and made it more robust for a bunch of test cases. I kept in touch with the tex2pdf guys, and for a while I thought we could merge codebases and continue evolving their stuff based on lyxport (which by then had grown quite a bit). But then I discovered python, and realized that life was too short to waste it writing perl :) Seriously, it was more a case of lyxport being 'good enough' for many common cases, so I just stopped working on it. In fact, ipython's manual breaks in lyx for some reason (I can't even view postscript from it), but lyxport manages to build it fine. >> ps. Many thanks for Lyx over the years. One Master's thesis, one PhD >> thesis, talks, papers, letters, and a bunch of converts in several >> research groups... I've been a huge fan since the days of 0.10.x. Keep >> up the good work! > > You are welcome (On behalf of the LyX Team). :-) Today I got yet another user going. I keep spreading the word, so you guys keep doing the good work :) Best to all, f ps. I'm glad you like ipython. By the way, I've toyed with the idea of having Lyx as the wrapper environment for a python-based system which would allow mathematica-type 'notebooks'. Something where you could keep interactive code, text and equations, and the plots right there in the document. I know many pieces of such a puzzle are there, but it needs to be done. If you guys like such an idea and think there's some energy available, the ipython infrastructure is evolving to meet the embedding needs of such an animal. Think about it...
