El jue., 4 oct. 2018 a las 2:21, John Kane (<jrkrid...@gmail.com>) escribió:
> Lovely book. I am up to about page 53 and it has remind me of things I > have forgotten and taught me a number of new things. > > I second Steve Litt's comment about the language. Very easy to read and > does not--at least so far need any English editing. It would be nice if 90% > of the native English speakers I know wrote as well. > Thanks John! I was worried about the language, now I'm starting to feel proud of myself! :) Regards, Ricardo > On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 at 14:54, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > >> On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 11:19:05 -0400 >> Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 03:59:44AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: >> > >> > > but LyX' html and xhtml exporters >> > > export pidgeon xhtml and html that requires all sorts of human >> > > intervention and garbage removal. >> > >> > Have you reported bugs for this or are all of the bugs covered by >> > existing reports? LyX HTML export is slowly improving, especially when >> > bugs with minimal examples are reported. >> >> I reported them on this list, many, many times, and was shouted down as >> people priortized just-right rendering of Apple Retina Displays over >> any sane way of LyX authoring 21st century flowing text books (ePub, >> for instance) without repeated human intervention. >> >> I was told that the xhtml and html export mechanisms were "just fine" >> for ePub. They use different styles for the first paragraph after a >> heading, for gosh sakes. They almost completely converted styles to >> inline appearance codes so I couldn't customize my ePubs via CSS. The >> HTML they put out wasn't WYSIWYM, it was 100% pure fingerpainting. The >> files were therefore HUGE. >> >> Understanding that xhtml/html exports would never be adequate for ePub, >> I begged for the transition of LyX's language to well-formed XML to be >> completed so I could write my own LyX to ePub converter. No. Too much >> work. >> >> After years of begging and pleading, I created Stylz to author both PDF >> and ePub. I am writing two different books written in Stylz. >> It's not easy for one developer to develop an authoring tool and write >> books at the same time, but I'm doing it. Stylz already renders HTML >> beautifully, does ePub pretty darn well, but its rendering in PDF is >> defective and needs several repairs. >> >> I had given up on LyX, because it's important I be able to have one >> document render both PDF and *high quality* ePub, without human >> intervention. If lwarp can *correctly and semantically* export LyX to >> HTML5 *as XML*, I might write the HTML5 to ePub converter and return to >> the LyX fold. >> >> But if you're asking me to report the inadequacies of LyX' html and >> xhtml exports for the purpose of ePub, I've done my time. And nobody >> cared. And I've moved on. >> >> SteveT >> >> Steve Litt >> September 2018 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your Own Business >> http://www.troubleshooters.com/startbiz >> > > > -- > John Kane > Kingston ON Canada >
