On Saturday 17 July 2004 03:32, Fernando Perez wrote: > > > > 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 :)
That is fair. :-) [...] > 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 :) OK, now I see, thanks. > 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. One short notice, I had gone to the ipython page (I missed the 0.6 version, oops) and I searched for such a document, I followed the link to cvs and it failed from that page. For some reason the redirection is failing. Take the address directly solved it though. A simple bug report. :-) I tried the manual that appears in cvs and since I ignored magic.tex I was able to take a ps and pdf versions of it without any problem. Or are you post-processing this lyx file. (I noticed that the title does not have the version it refers to...) [...] > Today I got yet another user going. I keep spreading the word, so you > guys keep doing the good work :) That is a good deal. :-) > 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... Do you have any concrete proposal? It seems a bit fuzzy at the moment. That being said I like the idea, on the other hand python is a requirement if you have older document due to lyx2lyx. Also the lyx mechanics is the same as any typical free software project, "show us the code" and we will discuss it. :-) So you have my support for it, consider it as a payback for your work with ipython. ;-) Your proposal is something quite interesting and a good topic to discuss in next month meeting in Chemnitz hence if you have any further details please step forward. -- José Abílio
