On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:32:12 -0400 Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On 06/10/2013 06:05 PM, Steve Litt wrote: > > These days, it could be used as a front end to anything with the > > proper styles defined, and the proper converter. So the same LyX > > file could be used to output LaTeX, MSWord doc, XHTML, HTML, simple > > HTML, or who knows what else. > > > > To more easily accommodate this, it seems to me like layout files > > should be split into an input side and an output side, with the > > output side capable of multiple output formats. So the input side > > might look something like this: > > > > CharStyle MyEmph > > Font > > Shape Italic > > EndFont > > > > if outputtype == latex > > outputName latexlayout.layout/myemphL > > outputType Command > > elsif outputtype == simplehtml > > outputName simphtmllayout.layout/myemphH > > outputType InlineTag > > else outputtype == msword > > outputName winwordlayout.layout/myemphW > > outputType CharacterStyle > > End > > > > Environments would be similar. > > > > Ideally it would be designed so that it doesn't syntax check inside > > the output type's it's not. That way you can develop one output > > type at a time without getting errors from the ones you haven't > > developed yet. > > This can already be done, more or less. That is, I can't imagine > anything you'd want to do, as far as XHTML export goes, that isn't > provided for in the layout files. > > Indeed, I am sufficiently confident about this that I'd be surprised > if it were not possible to build the sort of simple HTML export you > want simply by writing a new layout file. Thanks Richard, When I tried to do this with my layout file, it failed miserably. Try as I might, I couldn't get Standard to map to <p>, nor could I get Section to map to <h1>, etc. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
