Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-30 Thread Pavel Sanda
Richard Heck wrote: > Of course, this is fine. > > See my other proposal: We should just have an HTML output format, as you > proposed first, I think. on contrary i think it is not worth the effort pavel

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-30 Thread Richard Heck
Pavel Sanda wrote: anyway i still think we can make this converter to be recognized by us. secondly i think we should provide different target for viewing then the current HTML target done by html2latex or others. as we have different targets pdf1/2/3, dvi1/2, ps1/2 for different routes this shou

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-30 Thread Pavel Sanda
Richard Heck wrote: >> It is for many people who just need basic math (like me and, I would >> contend, 90% of LyX users). >> > It would surprise me if 90% of LyX users only needed "basic math". +1 p

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-30 Thread Pavel Sanda
Alex Fernandez wrote: > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > can you be more specific about this point? is it that some expressions > > are typeset with bugs? is there some way how user would detect this, or > > avoid > > it by eg switching to math material to be externally typ

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-30 Thread Richard Heck
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: rgheck wrote: Let me say again that my point had to do with what's required if this is to be included in LyX. And my view, which I would expect to be widely shared, is that support for "basic math" isn't good enough *for that purpose*. If it works well enough for you a

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-30 Thread Richard Heck
Helge Hafting wrote: rgheck wrote: Right now, it just outputs the raw LaTeX for anything it doesn't recognize. Fixing this is a matter of writing a LaTeX-->HTML entities converter, for some of it, or using some trick to generate little pictures, or maybe using MathML, who knows? But what abou

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-30 Thread Richard Heck
Charles de Miramon wrote: rgheck wrote: Just to be clear, here are what I regard as the showstoppers: Theorem-type environments aren't rendered; math support is marginal, esp with regard to custom macros; BibTeX isn't supported, so far as I can tell; cross-references omit the related text.

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-30 Thread Helge Hafting
rgheck wrote: Right now, it just outputs the raw LaTeX for anything it doesn't recognize. Fixing this is a matter of writing a LaTeX-->HTML entities converter, for some of it, or using some trick to generate little pictures, or maybe using MathML, who knows? But what about math macros? Th

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-29, Alex Fernandez wrote: > Custom macros are quite out of scope for all I know. Would it be possible to handle custom math-macros that are defined in the actual document, like ... \begin_inset FormulaMacro \renewcommand{\test}{\int x\,\mathrm{d}x} \end_inset \begin_i

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-30 Thread Charles de Miramon
rgheck wrote: > Just to be clear, here are what I regard as the showstoppers: > Theorem-type environments aren't rendered; math support is marginal, esp > with regard to custom macros; BibTeX isn't supported, so far as I can > tell; cross-references omit the related text. Other things I'd want to

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
rgheck wrote: Let me say again that my point had to do with what's required if this is to be included in LyX. And my view, which I would expect to be widely shared, is that support for "basic math" isn't good enough *for that purpose*. If it works well enough for you and some other users, that

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Alex Fernandez wrote: Fair enough. My views are much more simplistic: LyX currently doesn't do what 99.9% of users need, which is output to different formats including HTML and/or something importable from within Word. Thus many, many people don't know about an otherwise wonderful editor. The nee

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-30 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
rgheck wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Your eLyXers is much better than tex4ht as far as I tested. I therefore plan to include eLyXer to my Windows installer. That is an interesting possibility: not include the code in LyX and just redistribute the executable file

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi again, On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:09 AM, rgheck wrote: > The document I converted ended up with very little but raw LaTeX. I don't > know why, but that's how it went. E.g.: Could you send me this document? > Just to be clear, here are what I regard as the showstoppers: Theorem-type > environ

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi again, Richard, On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:03 PM, rgheck wrote: > The main advantage to going that way, in my opinion, is that I'm not sure > the LyX team wants to commit to maintaining this converter. Even if we made > you part of the team (i.e., gave you commit rights), still, having one > pe

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread rgheck
Alex Fernandez wrote: Hi Richard, On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:31 PM, rgheck wrote: So far as I can see, math is almost untranslated at this point. (I just cloned from git.) Theorem-type environments do not get converted, either. There's more on this in a different message. That is not

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi Richard, On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 4:31 PM, rgheck wrote: > So far as I can see, math is almost untranslated at this point. (I just > cloned from git.) Theorem-type environments do not get converted, either. > There's more on this in a different message. That is not really true. All formulae in

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi Pavel, On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > can you be more specific about this point? is it that some expressions > are typeset with bugs? is there some way how user would detect this, or avoid > it by eg switching to math material to be externally typesetted by latex > and t

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread Alex Fernandez
> 1. Let LyX find the program and generate a menu entry for export/view HTML >   via elyxer. Cool. > 2. "Advertise" elyxer by including it in the list of recommended programs. Even cooler. > 3. Describe elyxer as a LyX->HTML converter option in the LyX Manual. Coolest. > Could you file an enh

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread rgheck
Pavel Sanda wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Your eLyXers is much better than tex4ht as far as I tested. I therefore plan to include eLyXer to my Windows installer. That is an interesting possibility: not include the code in LyX and just redistribute the executable file as is. I'm a

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 06:52:09AM +, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2009-04-29, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hi, > For Linux distributions this would mean a "recommendation" or > "suggestion" in the lyx package. (Hopefully there will be an elyxer > Debian package soon.) These terms (recommends and sug

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
Richard Heck wrote: >>> Your eLyXers is much better than tex4ht as far as I tested. I therefore >>> plan >>> to include eLyXer to my Windows installer. >>> >> >> That is an interesting possibility: not include the code in LyX and >> just redistribute the executable file as is. I'm all for it.

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread rgheck
Alex Fernandez wrote: Hi Uwe, On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Your eLyXers is much better than tex4ht as far as I tested. I therefore plan to include eLyXer to my Windows installer. That is an interesting possibility: not include the code in LyX and just redistribut

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread rgheck
Pavel Sanda wrote: Richard Heck wrote: Pavel Sanda wrote: - accurate and complete math translation, can you be more specific about this point? is it that some expressions are typeset with bugs? is there some way how user would detect this, or avoid it by eg switching

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
Richard Heck wrote: > Pavel Sanda wrote: >>> - accurate and complete math translation, >>> >> >> can you be more specific about this point? is it that some expressions >> are typeset with bugs? is there some way how user would detect this, or >> avoid >> it by eg switching to math material

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
rgheck writes: >> Integration with lyx2lyx is a must IMO, since it will ensure that it >> still works if the LyX format is updated. This means that we do not have >> to rely on proper maintenance of eLyXer before a release. >> >> > I don't see how this is possible. I have looked at the code, an

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread rgheck
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: Abdelrazak Younes wrote: Well, if you don't want eLyXers to stay a single-person project I'd advocate integrating into LyX proper. For example the csv2lyx script was looked at, optimized and cleaned up a lot by other developers as

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread rgheck
Pavel Sanda wrote: - accurate and complete math translation, can you be more specific about this point? is it that some expressions are typeset with bugs? is there some way how user would detect this, or avoid it by eg switching to math material to be externally typesetted by latex and t

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: > Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > >> Well, if you don't want eLyXers to stay a single-person project I'd >> advocate integrating into LyX proper. For example the csv2lyx script was >> looked at, optimized and cleaned up a lot by other developers as soon as >> it was integrate

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Well, if you don't want eLyXers to stay a single-person project I'd > advocate integrating into LyX proper. For example the csv2lyx script was > looked at, optimized and cleaned up a lot by other developers as soon as > it was integrated into LyX. In any case, it might

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-29 Thread Pavel Sanda
Alex Fernandez wrote: > So, after a couple of months of development, eLyXer is now ready for > prime time! congratulations :) > - accurate and complete math translation, can you be more specific about this point? is it that some expressions are typeset with bugs? is there some way how user wou

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-28 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Alex Fernandez wrote: Hi Uwe, On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Your eLyXers is much better than tex4ht as far as I tested. I therefore plan to include eLyXer to my Windows installer. That is an interesting possibility: not include the code in LyX and just redistribut

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-28 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi Uwe, On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Your eLyXers is much better than tex4ht as far as I tested. I therefore plan > to include eLyXer to my Windows installer. That is an interesting possibility: not include the code in LyX and just redistribute the executable file as is. I

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-28 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-04-29, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > What do you think? If the plan is to keep elyxer development at Savannah, source integration into LyX is not needed (but still possible if desired). Instead, elyxer should be integrated in the sense of a supporting application like latex, or ps2pdf: 1. Let LyX

Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX

2009-04-28 Thread Uwe Stöhr
> What do you think? Your eLyXers is much better than tex4ht as far as I tested. I therefore plan to include eLyXer to my Windows installer. We can also directly include it to LyX and I support this. But this decision depends on our three Js: José, JMarc, and Jürgen. Using LyX with your progr