On Thursday 16 March 2006 07:03, Robert van der Kamp wrote: > > Hi Jose! > > > I don't think that all is in place to do what you want. > > That's too bad.
Actually some of your wishes are in our todo lists for some time. :-) > > > 1. I want each of the systems have their own document, > > > explaining the system's features, etc. > > > > One way would be to have a master document in the root > > and then use the other documents as slaves. So each > > project would have its lyx file (That could include other > > files...). > > I guessed it would have to be set up like this, yes. > So the master-slave pattern can repeat again in the slave > docs? Nice... Yes, on both accounts. :-) > > > 2. I want to be able to hyperlink from these documents > > > to other Lyx documents (e.g. a section, a table, a > > > figure), or to certain functions or other contructs in > > > the C/C++ source code. > > > > In lyx that requires to always load the master > > document. > > Now that could be a serious problem with some 80 documents > involved. The master doc, with all slaves included, could > become too big to handle easily. It is not an easy problem to solve. Docbook uses olink for that but then you need an external tool to guarantee that those external references exists and are correctly deal depending on the exported format. It is not a trivial task. > And there's no way to make a hyperlink (or crossref) to a > non-lyx doc, like a C source file, right? You could use the url inset and overload its definition to do what you want. > > > 5. And finally I need all the individual files > > > converted to HTML, the HTML file stored next to the > > > orginal Lyx file in the corresponding subfolders, and > > > with the hyperlinks now pointing to the associated HTML > > > file instead of the original Lyx file, thus creating a > > > nice web of HTML documentation. > > > > Here you need to tweak the latex to html converters as > > it is not possible now. > > Yes, I guessed as much. What I need is some 'distributed > documentation' feature, but it isn't implemented in any of > the apps I tried so far (OpenOffice, Lyx). The master-slave > feature comes half-way, but the moment you want the slave > docs individually converted (distributed) as a batch, using > the master document concept, it's a no no. I don't blame them. :-) The problem is already quite complex. I have (ab)used this feature before but switching off the use of temporary directories in lyx, but that is not possible anymore. :-) > Okay, thanks for the info Jose. Appreciated! :-) My good dead of the day. ;-) > - Robert -- José Abílio
