discuss: Command-line reference (summary) and some other documentation
Subject:
Re: Command-line reference (summary) and some other documentation
From:
####@####.#### (Chris Karakas)
Date:
25 Jan 2003 18:13:45 -0000
Message-Id: <3E32D369.FC913EFE@karakas-online.de>
Guru - wrote:
>
> Currently they have been written in LyX and it would take some effort to
> convert them to your type of documentation.
You have used the right editor ;-)
> "SGML or XML only."
> Ok, I'll need to work on it then.......
> It will take some time to convert...
No, it will not :-) . You are lucky. I have done this work already. I
just need to describe it and put it on my website for the world to
enjoy.
> I found a tutorial on Lyx and Docbook and I might do things that way...
> http://bgu.chez.tiscali.fr/doc/db4lyx/index.html
Leave that for the moment. Send your LyX documents to me. I use LyX
1.2.0. I have written some (rather elaborate) scripts that do the
following:
- Export the .lyx document to DocBook SGML. LyX uses DocBook 4.1 from
1.2.0 on.
- Correct the LyX SGML. That's done with sed and a long sed script.
- Transform the SGML file to HTML, PDF, RTF, TXT and PS. The PDF comes
with full hypertext support, embedded Computer Modern fonts, bookmarks
and thumbnails.
- Images, cross-references to images, tables, sections work for all
versions where they are meaniungfull, i.e. HTML, PDF, RTF (yes! RTF too)
and PS.
- Index generation is automatic. You just have to define the "Index
entry for previous word" in LyX.
Don't try to repeat this work - it's been a pain to put it all together
- images, cross-references, thumbnails, index, all that is not trivial
to get "out of the box" from LyX.
But I've done it and it works great. See the following documents that
were created this way on my website:
- http://www.karakas-online.de/myAMANDA/index.html
- http://www.karakas-online.de/EN-Book/index.html (scroll down to see
the link to the Index, or the List of Figures)
- http://www.karakas-online.de/myTreemenu/index.html
Click on the "Formats" subsection in the above documents to find the
links to all the other formats - and try them, to see what I mean!
So I suggest you send me your LyX document and I will pass it through my
scripts and send you the link to the result. What do you think?
--
Regards
Chris Karakas
http://www.karakas-online.de
