I'm glad nobody posted before me to this thread. I have some amendments (somehow I got confused and counted three twice in my previous posting).
To whom it may concern, I think it might be convenient to summarize our discussion of the problems involved in latex conversion to lyx in Windows. That's why I propose this new thread... The Problems ============ 1. The conversion script is broken or incomplete. reLyX produces an old lyx format, and the packaged lyx2lyx needs fixes for dependencies. 2. The program call from within LyX is incorrect. In the Edit/Preferences menu, under Converters/LaTeX -> LyX it calls reLyX -f $$1 which leads to the problem number... 3. The reLyX/lyx2lyx conversion programs packaged with Ruurd's distribution depend on stripped down and probably outdated perl and python libraries and executables. reLyX produces an old unrecognized lyx format that LyX 1.3.5 cannot load or process, so there is need for post-processing by lyx2lyx. The Solutions ============= 1. reLyX is deprecated. The new tex2lyx conversion program available at wiki.lyx.org, is strongly recommended. 2. Since the target format for this program supersedes the currently distributed 1.3.5, it must be downgraded it with the newer lyx2lyx distributed with tex2lyx, or the lyx2lyx binary distributed in the LyXWinTips page. 3. Consequently, we still need the two-step process previously required by reLyX: LaTeX to lyx14, lyx14 to lyx13; we need then another conversion script, calling tex2lyx for conversion, and lyx2lyx for post processing, and a consistent way to call this script. I propose the ugly provisional name `ltx2lyx'. This way, we may fix the call from within LyX to the two step conversion script substituting reLyX typing ltx2lyx $$1 I suppose the conclusions of this thread may be worth of publication somewhere in the wiki. Did I miss something? Luis.
