Steve,
I fundamentally disagree about the relevance.
LyX is a front end for LaTeX, not a document format. And it is a
FANTASTIC front end, which can be twsited to do a lot of things :-)-O
pandoc can produce an epub from (reasonable) LaTeX (exported from LyX),
which kindlegen can translate into mobi.
For LaTeX there is lwarp at
https://ctan.org/pkg/lwarp
which also looks interesting.
XML would be a great step, and not only for epub. But that would be a
fundamental change, and who's going to do it?
On 2018-11-02 18:57 , Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 19:41:00 +0000 (UTC)
> Anders Host-Madsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Perhaps beating a dead horse, but I really wish there would be a LyX
>> for iPad.
>
> Perhaps this is why LyX becomes less relevant every year. Here, in
> 2018, LyX *still* cannot produce an semantically reasonable ePub, and
> even the semantically unreasonable ePubs require tons of human
> intervention. LyX can't produce docs easily readable on iPads and other
> portable devices because no ePub (and thus no Kindle). A decade ago it
> was decided to make the (then) easily parsable LyX native format into
> XML, but the transition stopped halfway, so it's unparseable by XML
> parsers, and yet it's miserable to parse with a Python program.
>
> And all this while, where's the priority? LyX for Retina displays. LyX
> for iPad (like anyone is capable of pounding out 2K words per day with
> an iPad). All sorts of lilly-gilding, but LyX still can't do a
> reasonable job of exporting the format used by portable devices, and
> LyX' native format is still a jumble unparsable by an XML parser.
>
> I have nothing against Apple afficianados getting their every dream,
> but if there's not the programmer-power to do everything, then for gosh
> sakes, first make LyX native format truly XML and produce a 1 click ePub
> converter that creates **semantic** ePubs.
>
> SteveT
>
