Asger Kunuk Ottar Alstrup wrote: > Hi, > > Inspired by http://www.oooconv.de/ which is an online service to convert > an open office document to a number of other formats like PDF, Word, HTML > and what not, I figured such a service would be very nice to have to LyX > as well.
[snip...] > If you want to get fancy, the web page could also be used to invoke > lyx2lyx to convert between LyX formats. > > It should be a fairly easy hack to do... ...and it's a cooooooool idea. However, some questions arise: 1. (tex -> lyx) and (lyx -> lyx) should be easy, but how to handle conversion to an output format (ps, pdf etc) of a lyx file with multiple included files. (Other lyx files, graphics etc). Require the user to upload a tar file containing all necessary data? 2. Similarly, how to present multiple output files to the user? Create a .tar.gz archive? -- Angus
