Angus Leeming wrote:
So far, I have not been able to make this fly, although the two scripts from the CMD prompt do the job.Colin J. Williams wrote:
When I attempt to open the created Hello.lyx, I get the "Can't open conversion script" message.
I have Python 2.3.5 installed and had deleted the Python 2.2 stuff from
the lyx\bin. In view of your comments above, I reinstalled LyX
1.3.5 and then renamed Python23 to Python23Z. I get the same
message.
This is rapidly becoming a LyX/Win FAQ. Indeed, much of the information you require is detailed in the rest of this thread. However, I think that a recap might provide you with some illumination.
The reLyX Perl script converts your LaTeX file to a file in a mish-mash of different LyX file formats and it is this mish-mash LyX file must be sanitized by the lyx2lyx Python conversion script.
It is this conversion script, lyx2lyx, can't be run because it is invoked by LyX as
<path to>\lyx2lyx --output <new file>.lyx <old file>.lyx
Invocation of the script in this way is perfectly fine in a Unix environment because the shell will look at the first line of the script to ascertain what interpretter (python) should be used. Windows doesn't follow this tradition. Instead it looks either for a ".py" extension to the script name or requires that the script be invoked as
python <path to>\lyx2lyx --output <new file>.lyx <old file>.lyx
Since the invocation is hard-coded into the LyX executable, you can't change it. Tough.
A work-around has been suggested, however. Place a file "lyx2lyx.cmd" in the same directory as the lyx2lyx python script. This file should contain the line:
@ <path to python>\python <path to lyx2lyx>\lyx2lyx %*
You can also run these scripts from the CMD prompt.
PROMPT> reLyX -f hello.tex PROMPT> python <path to lyx2lyx>\lyx2lyx -o sanitized_hello.lyx hello.lyx
This sanitized_hello.lyx should be loadable by LyX 1.3.x without further conversion. This assumes, of course, that reLyX has done a reasonable job of converting your LaTeX file in the first place.
Alternatively, you might consider using tex2lyx. Read about it here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx
I have the download from the wiki and will try it tomorrow. Thanks for all your work on this.
Colin W.
