On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos wrote:
> >
> Ok, I'm sorry for the confusion, I don't want LyX to be one more html
> editor, that's really an unpleseant idea :)
>
> What I was refering is the present ability to load the textclasses,
> where some configuration is available and extend it. As I said
> some time ago (not sure how long :) the textclasses are our stylesheets,
> more like css than dsssl or XLT.
>
> This could be extended, I think, to further control the final output.
Yes.
>
> > > I think that we also need a way to change a document from latex to
> > > docbook and convert the document structure from one to the other, and
> > > vice versa. That mechanism doesn't exist now.
> >
> > Tricky though, isn't it. I guess there are enough similarities between
> > article.cls and docbook that it could probably be done for articles and
> > related classes. A very hard problem in general, though.
>
> Why not? ;-)
> I don't mean the general problem, but some sort of filters, between
> specific layouts. Use this filter if you have it, ignore it otherwise.
>
Ah, yes. This would be excellent.
In particular, if we were using XML for *all* our documents, such filters
would be trivial to write - XML is designed to easy conversion between
different DTDs.
>
> Latex class -> xml myDTD class
> layout LyX-Code Code
> BlaBla Standard #difficult to translate
> Title Mytitle
>
> Does this makes sense? :)
Yup. Even more sense in an XML world.
Jules
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