On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 11:27:50PM +0100, David Kastrup wrote:
> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to de.comp.text.tex as well.
I'll try to translate this (freely) into English lest we get examples of
Norwegian or Hebrew poetry next time (comments in [] are mine)
------ David says something like ----
Stupid question: What about trying to write a [LaTeX/TeX] package that
writes out a LyX .layout file. I was about to write that preview-latex has
no problems detecting the structure of the document even if it does not now
the [LaTeX document-] class and bla, bla but I censored this myself.
Then it occured to me that preview-latex is only able to do that because
\@startsection and similar are called with suitable parameters and
\thesection etc. are defined. LyX could hook into it and would obtain a lot
of information on [Verzeichnisebenen?], math environments, counters etc.
In the extreme case one could simply use
"\nonstopmode\AtBeginDocument{\RequirePackage{lyxlayout}}\input{doc.tex}"
on unknown [LaTeX] documents and end up with a basic LyX .layout.
Idea or nonsens? I'll send a copy to lyx-devel.
David Kastrup
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This is not an exact translation and not authorized by David....
Andre'
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