On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 11:59:01AM +0200, Friedemann Baitinger wrote:
> since I've been using LyX now for a couple of papers and larger
> documents I thought I'd use LyX to update an old Linux Mini-HOWTO but to
> no luck yet.
Hi,
> I am using LyX-1.1.1 (compiles now after updating gcc to egcs). Since
> Linux HOWTOs are expected to be submitted as SGML files I thought I'd
> use the Docbook class and then export to SGML, however, I have the
> following problems:
> 1) I haven't found a way to include code like in 'LyX-Code'. The
> 'LyX-Code' doesn't seem to be available in docbook, it is greyed out
> in the pull down. When I use 'Meta-p c' I end up in 'NLyX-Code'
> which happens to behave different (in my opinion not as good) than
> LyX-Code. The problem I have with NLyX-Code is that it messes with
> the line breaks. It actually joins lines where I need empty lines.
> (BTW: 'NLyX-Code' is also not available as a selection out of the
> pull down. It only works as a meta-p shortcut). My expectation was
> that I could switch to LyX-Code mode and then cut/paste some screen
> output directly from an xterm into LyX and preserve the line
> breaks -- That doesn't seem to work though.
The correct layout to insert code is Code. :-)
I inserted LyX-Code only for compatibility all those layouts will be converted
to Code, if you import them...
Regarding your choice, NLyX-Code, I think that this is a bug. Even if the layout
isn't
available throught the menu, the shortcut calls it. Any thoughts J-M or others?
Regarding the importing of ascaii text you can always import it directly as
lines, look for Insert->Ascii file as -> Lines. Tell me if this doesn't work
> 2) I can't find any sgmltools setup which would be able to cleanly
> process the LyX exported SGML into HTML. I have tried the sgmltools
> and jade packages from the SuSE 6.1 distribution as well as various
> versions of those tools which I downloaded from the Internet.
The right sgmltools to be used directly is sgmltools v2.3, That is only available
as a cvs version for now.
What were your problems? I have some suspects, that could help you...
> I will now send a test version of the LyX exported SGML to the
> maintainers of the Linux-HOTWO database and see whether those experts
> can produce HTML out of it.
>
> Any hints/suggestions are welcome. Any Linux-HOWTO Authors hanging out
> there who have successfully used LyX to author Linux-HOWTOs?
> --
> Friedemann Baitinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://baiti.net/fb
Best regards,
--
José
