>>Subject: Creating HTML docs from LyX >>From: Jane McKean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: [email protected] >>Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:23:58 -0800 >> >>Hi there: >> >>I am using LyX 1.3.5 on Fedora Core 3 to create our compiler >>documentation set (now up to six volumes or so). I've been creating PDFs >>from LyX as the final output (pdflatex), with included PDFs for the >>covers (artwork from Marketing). I have figures, tables, an index, the >>works. >> >>Everyone has been very pleased with the output and the documentation >>set. Now they want an HTML version of the docs to post on our website, >>not just the PDFs. >> >>My question: Has anybody created a volume of documentation (300-500 >>pages) in LyX and converted it to HTML? Do you have any recommendations, >>suggestions, things to avoid? >> >>Are there other converters/tools/packages you might recommend? Would I >>be better off generating from the .tex files that LyX creates? I >>understand that tables can be problematic.
I built a HTML version of the docs with latex2html. You must be aware that you loose some of the features of the on-line help (when the help refers to things which need LyX to be correctly displayed) - but this is true with the pdf version as well. The reward is the ability to access individual sections with a search field, if you take care to split the docs at maximum depth. In that case, you may keep the lyx doc separate. So the best combination seems on-line LyX help to navigate the docs by TOC, pdf doc to read at will, and keyword search on HTML conversion (batch automated conversion, something like -- tuned for french documentation: #!/bin/sh # export lyx -e latex fr_Customization.lyx # compile latex fr_Customization bibtex fr_Customization makeindex -s fridx1.ist fr_Customization latex fr_Customization latex fr_Customization latex fr_Customization # convert to html latex2html -html_version 3.2,latin1,Unicode,latin9 -image_type png \ -auto_prefix -split 8 -link 4 \ -t " Documentation LYX - Personnalisation" \ -address 'Documentation LYX 1.3.5 - Personnalisation<BR><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Admin LyX</a>' fr_Customization.tex exit 0 Once this works, you may loop on the docs... -- Jean-Pierre
