Hi Steve I've cc'ed the list (I hope you don't mind - I couldn't see anything private in your email)
LyX itself is OK, I've got through the first few hurdles, my LaTeX Companion has arrived, I've created a new document style with its own set of character styles and it works (well, sort of; the problems I have with it I know are just a question of detail - e.g. stuff like images appearing at a different scale in the LyX window and in the DVI/PDF output - and the user list or the archives (or the LC) are good with the details). The bit which I can't seem to fathom is the whole XML/LyX connection. This is a big picture problem. I can load a small DocBook file into LyX and it looks OK. I can edit this file, save it, and export it to DocBook - but only to a super-simplified DocBook, AFAICT. In any case, our documents aren't DocBook, but (if LyX could handle the full range of DocBook element definitions) I could probably add an extra XSLT step so that they pass through a DocBook version on their way in and out of LyX. Not as it stands, however, because if I tried to roundtrip I'd lose most of my markup. I've tried cloning the docbook layouts and adding my own character styles - but when I do this the 'export to DocBook XML' option is no longer available. If I dropped the DocBook pretence I'm confident that I could write XSLT stylesheets to take our XML files and generate LyX documents for printing. What we'd really like is to be able to use LyX as our document editor, because alternative XML editors really suck big time. However this would mean we have to be able to go in the other direction, converting LyX documents back into XML. That's a requirement because the principal output method we use is either HTML or CSS-styled XML. And the LyX (or LaTeX) to HTML path is still worse than useless. If LyX really could act as an (excellent) editor for DocBook and quasi-DocBook documents we'd be over the moon, Brian (sorry, gratuitous UK sporting reference there). Thanks for your reply Cheers Trevor -----Original Message----- From: Steve Litt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 12 June 2007 4:59 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lyx tutorium On Tuesday 12 June 2007 00:25, Trevor Nicholls wrote: > > LyX vs. Docbook: I believe that LyX can be used to front-end docbook. > > So I am led to understand (in principle), but if this is really true then > it is one area where the LyX help files are sadly deficient. I'm quite > willing to accept that it's my ignorance that is responsible for my failure > to get LyX working with the content of my documents - but there doesn't > seem to be any practical information out there which addresses this > ignorance. I could be wrong about the "front end to docbook" thing. As far as LyX help, I'd start here: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Tutorials http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=docs The docs are out there -- it's just hard to know which doc applies to your current needs. SteveT
