Hi all, I have no doubt the HTML exporters in LyX are exactly what I want to make an eBook. A simple, mostly text website? Not so much. I was unable to change <div to <p in my layout file -- it remained <div regardless of how I set HTMLTag. There were other things that meant I'd need to do a lot of cleanup before a quickly typed LyX doc turned into a quick and dirty HTML doc I could maybe modify slightly and then throw up on the web, and that's just what I want for web page editing.
Just to make it clear, this is my personal itch and I'm going to do it. But just in case others enjoy what I create (I created VimOutliner as a personal itch and we saw how that turned out), I'd like to, to some degree, know LyX best practices, or if those are to difficult for me, LyX decent practices. This will NOT be YAHC (Yet Another HTML Converter). It will be a small subset of LyX's capabilities, purposed not to turn a document into HTML, but to turn LyX into a quick to use HTML authoring tool for HTML web pages. It will in no way try to replace the existing HTML Converters, and from what I've seen so far, the existing HTML converters would have a hard time replacing what I'm trying to make. Due to my schedule, I can't start it til July. My plan of attack is to start it as a separate shellscript that first exports to LaTeX, and then turns the LaTeX into HTML, which should be fairly easy. The first version will be a Vim/EX script -- these are what I use to do complex text reformatting in one day, and they help me understand the various steps that need to be done. The second step will be an equivalent shellscript that's primarily a pipeline with bunches of grep and sed commands, perhaps with some hand coded stuff thrown in. The final version will be mostly hand coded. I could easily do it in Lua, C or Python, and could be persuaded to do it in Perl or Ruby. Am I correct in assuming that Python is the LyX project's scripting language of choice, and stuff like what I'm talking about is preferred to be in Python over C? Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
