Ethan Metsger wrote:
Hi, all.
I have a quick question. I've been developing a bit of documentation
for one of our products using LyX. It's a small project, and I'm
hoping to spur adoption of LyX by demonstrating some nice clean
results here.
One of the really nice features of LyX is the ability to do exports
from the command-line using something like 'lyx -e pdf2
document.lyx'. However, I have found it necessary to use different
branches to separate PDF formatting from, e.g., HTML formatting, so as
not to confuse some of the conversion programs like tex4ht and so on.
(At least part of my efforts for this particular project will be
generating reasonable HTML versions of our documentation; we do this
through Framemaker already, but Frame has proven somewhat annoying to
use, and we're gradually trending towards OSS products anyway.)
So I'm curious if there is a way to activate a branch through the
command-line, e.g., using '-x <some command>'.
I don't see any LFUN for this at the moment, but it shouldn't be
terribly difficult to add one. File an enhancement request.
Any pointers on doing lyx-to-HTML conversion would be helpful also, if
anyone is so inclined.
Well, that depends upon your OS. On Linux, HTML export works pretty
well, though of course your results depend upon what LaTeX to HTML
converter you use. On other OS's, mileage seems to vary, mostly because
htlatex is buggy on Windows. But you might try the relatively new
Plastex converter, which is written in Python and so ought to be more
portable. I've been meaning to add a line to configure.py that would
detect and install it but just haven't gotten around to it.
Richard
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