Dear LyX users, LyX is a wonderful editor; its PDF output is perhaps unmatched by other graphical editors. But the most common interchange method of today is HTML, and LyX does not produce good HTML. There are some tools for TeX -> HTML conversion, and even LyX -> HTML, but the results tend to be poor and rigid.
So undeterred by the myriad of similar efforts I set to the task of producing a simple, specialized tool for LyX -> HTML conversion, and the result is eLyXer. It is meant to produce acceptable-to-beautiful HTML code, depending on your browser's Unicode and CSS rendering merits. To use it just type at the prompt: $ elyxer document.lyx document.html This command takes a LyX document called (surprisingly) document.lyx, and produces (just as surprisingly) a web page called document.html. Ta-dah! The conversion is complete. For better results you may need to copy the file docs/lyx.css to your working directory, and perhaps customize it a bit. See this wiki page for details: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/ELyXer and be sure to read the user guide included in the package. A pretty example can be seen at http://vecinos-productions.com/rayleigh/book.html eLyXer is very much a work in progress, since it only supports a pretty small subset of LyX features -- it doesn't support too many LyX versions or even operating systems either. It is basically a home-grown tool for my needs, and it shows. However I would like to share it with other people who may have a use for it, and in the process expand it for other uses. Some LyX developers have recommended to get it in the hands of users ASAP, to calibrate interest and so you can have a say in future developments. You know, "release early, release often" is still the mantra. It is a command line tool written in Python 2.5, in case you are not sufficiently scared yet. Those used to smoother sailings can wait until the tool can be accessed from within LyX, which (if there is any interest at all, and as time allows) should be done in the next months. Adventurous souls can download the second public version 0.2 as a .tar.gz file: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tools/eLyXer/elyxer-20090311.tar.gz or as a zip file: http://wiki.lyx.org/uploads/Tools/eLyXer/elyxer-20090311.zip Let me know how it goes. Enjoy, Alex Fernández (ely...@gmail.com)
