i have been messing aroung with pstotext, however, that gives me certain trouble:
1) footnotes are placed more or less arbitrary within the ascii text. 2) so is page numbers. 3) form feeds are also introduced. 4) lines are wrapped using newlines, where i would preferre newlines only after paragraphs. martin On 23/08/05, Michael-E. Voges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi Martin, > > Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 09:01 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: > > On 22/08/05, Michael-E. Voges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am Montag, 22. August 2005 17:54 schrieb Martin A. Hansen: > > > > and has anyone got the solution to export/convert with bibtex? > > > what do You mean by "solution with bibtex"? > > exporting ascii does not invoke bibtex and hence the references in a > > document is missing. > > > > now, how does one generate a ascii file with the references? > > preferrably without invoking export via rtf or html formats. > > It might depend on your op. system. I do'nt know anything about windows. If > you use linux it should not be that hard: > > Finish your document including all references etc. and convert it to a pdf or > a ps file. Then you ought to convert it either by pdftotext or by ps2ascii or > pstotext (look man-pages). That should do the job. > > If you don't have any references or things like that you even might convert > your LyX-file by its own converter having line length of - for example - 78 > (chars). The resulting txt-file load into vim or emacs. You can format there. > VIM in normal mode: ":set tw=2500" <enter> "gggqG" <enter> > Emacs: "C-u 2500 C-x-f M-< C-space M-> M-q" > C means the Strg-key, M (Meta) the Alt-key > I hope that helps (and I didn't do a mistake discribing keys). > > Regards > > Micha-E. >
