On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:56:58PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> I have some HTML files, I want to import into LyX (well, you might guess
> that from the subject line).  The route I am using is to use
> gnuhtml2latex (that's what's available on my Debian system) to convert
> the HTML to LaTex, and then use the standard LaTeX import.
> (I am using LyX 1.1.6fix4; Debian doesn't have 1.2 yet)
> 
> Unfortunately, what I get is a horrible file with lots of ERT,
> for example ERT "\par" at every paragraph instead of it actually realizing
> they are paragraphs.

There are several html->latex converters. See
http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/pctotex.html

> (b) someone can point me towards a resource describing LyX-file syntax
> so that I can write my own direct HTML->LyX converter (though this may
> be a pointless exersize since the LyX syntax has probably changed in 1.2
> anyway...)
> I am not a LaTeX person, but I do know how to write Perl scripts... 8-)

IF neither existing html->latex converter does a good job, I suggest you try
to imporve one of them rather than write a html->lyx converter.

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