> >>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Bruce> I have been using groff for the past several years because I
> Bruce> haven't liked using the WSYIWYG editors I have seen. I am very
> Bruce> impressed with the WYSIWYM method of lyx, 1.03.
>
> Bruce> One thing I miss in troff is the ability to output good-looking
> Bruce> ASCII and tools to convert troff to HTML. For example, when
> Bruce> output in ascii, the title is not centered.
>
> The problem with the current ASCII export code is that it does not
> honor the .layout file and everything in it is hardcoded. This is
> scheduled to change in 1.1.x.
OK. First an apology. I had not completed reading the Tutorial before
I started trying to load in my troff files. Having now read the
tutorial section on reLyX, I now understand why I should not have been
surprised by the red text. The volume of the red text had me thinking I
was doing something wrong, but I now understand it was a complexity of
issues.
I found that the tr2latex code was broken for fonts too. When you
choose Roman in troff, you are really saying 'no italics, no bold',
while latex/lyx sees that as a font selection. Changing tr2latex from
\rm to \mdseries\upshape fixed most of my problems.
I did write a script handle the \fill, \nofill entries which were not
understood.
I see in the reLyX bugs section:
- \normalfont and \textnormal are not supported and may confuse the font stacks.
You can change "\sffamily foo \normalfont" to "\sffamily foo \rmfamily" or
even to "\textsf{foo}" to get around this problem.
but in fact my problem was that I was not trying to change fonts, but
tr2latex was trying to change fonts when it should just select medium
weight and no italics.
Seems like reLyX is working fine for my purposes.
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