Jacek M. Holeczek wrote:
> Hi,
> I've recently been using "tex2lyx" (lyx-1.4.3) to lyx'ify a revtex4 file.
> I have noticed some inconveniences:
> 1. the current LyX does not understand:
> \email[optional text]{e-mail address}
> (The "[optional text]" breaks LyX, note that also "\homepage",
> "\altaffiliation", and some another commands, can have it.)
You can easily change that if you edit the file "syntax.default" in your LyX
directory. Add the lines
\email[]{}
\homepage[]{}
etc. to the command list in that file, and tex2lyx will correctly translate
these commands. Where are they defined? Do we want to add them to the LyX
sources?
> 2. the current LyX does not understand:
> \appendix*
> (In general, if there are several appendices, one uses "\appendix" to
> mark all following sections as appendices. However, if there is only
> one, single appendix, then "\appendix*" should be used - in this case
> the "appendix letter" in the section heading will be suppressed.)
> 3. although LyX always (unconditionally) displays "\pacs{...}" and
> "\keywords{...}" macros in the LyX window, they appear in the generated
> dvi/ps files ONLY if the "showpacs" and " showkeys" options are
> MANUALLY added to the document's "Extra Options" (I believe this is
> nowhere documented)
> 4. although I can choose between "One-" and "Two-" Column output in
> LyX (in the document's settings), I haven't found the corresponding
> switch for "preprint" - one needs to do both: (a) select "One-Column"
> and (b) MANUALLY add "preprint" option to document's "Extra Options"
> (again, I believe this is nowhere documented)
I don't know revtex, so maybe these are bugs and should be filed at
http://bugzilla.lyx.org.
> 5. "tex2lyx" does not "convert" tex characters well. Take for example
> "\l{}". Such character is always marked as "ERT[ \l ] ERT[ {} ]"
> (note that there are TWO ERTs generated). Of course, if one deletes
> these two ERTs in LyX, one can insert the proper "\l{}" character in
> LyX MANUALLY (I mean, one gets the proper character displayed on in
> the LyX window as character, without ERT, using the "european.kmap" it
> would be either "hugarian_umlaut l" or "acute l" in the old version).
I just fixed the import of \l{} and \L{} in 1.5svn. Jean-Marc, should it
also go in 1.4.4?
Jacek, do you see other characters that are imported as ERT but could be
imported natively instead?
> Hope it helps,
Yes.
Georg
