On Sunday 09 May 2004 12:22, Gour wrote:
> Hello list!
>
> After longer pause I'm back on lyx-users list.

  Welcome back. :-)

> In the past I produced two books with LyX/LaTeX but because the need of
> XML source I was considering to use ConTeXt instead of LyX/LaTeX.
>
> Today I emerged latest LyX 1.3.4 on My Gentoo box and it really looks
> great.
>
> Kudos to all the developers.

  Thanks.

> I'm interested to hear if there is some plan to support import or TEI
> documents and/or is it possible to author them in LyX?

  Plan, yes. Any further work, no. :-)
  There is a bugzilla entry for that topic
http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1233

  Please feel free to add your suggestions there.

> The upcoming (not yet :-) version V5 of TEI/DocBook will support some
> kind of 'marriage' between the two, so I'd like to know if/how LyX can be
> used.

  That is still vapour, but a nice move if it becomes real, and I would like 
it to succeed. :-)

> The possible scenarios are:
>
> a) authoring TEI/DocBook in some XML editor --> import LyX -->  high q.
> output
>
> b) writing TEI/DocBook directly in LyX --> high quality output
>
> I'm sure (hope) I'm not the only one who needs source document in
> TEI/DocBook, and do not want to use FO for paper output, but rather use
> TeX typesetting system.

  Certainly not.

> Any hint?

  There is some work to be done on the lyx side, and all the contributions 
are welcome. The next version, 1.4, has some work in that direction. 
Specifically the character styles allow inline elements to be supported in 
docbook. Also it is possible to specify the dtd to be used directly in 
the .layout files. The remaing bits, the support for the insets that lyx 
supports can be done using some kind of "flavours" dialect.

  I would say that simple support is possible easily, a more integrated 
scheme requires more work. I hope this answers your question.

> Sincerely,
> Gour

-- 
Josà AbÃlio

LyX and docbook, a perfect match. :-)

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