On 14/07/2011 02:08, Stephen George wrote:
On 13/07/2011 12:31 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
I am wondering if it is conceivable to generate (with a script) Lyx
files, that can be later opened in Lyx to perform final
editing/touch-ups before generating my final book?
Is their some documentation on the Lyx file format somewhere?
Will the Lyx format be easier or harder to manage than dealing
directly with Latex format?
Thanks
Steve
Thanks everyone for the great hints.
A couple of you asked what I intend to do (how complicated).
I'll be dragging data from a data base populated with genealogy data.
It's not fully formulated in my mind yet, but I see:
- for each person a new section
- sub sections for various details of the person (marriages, children,
notes etc)
- maybe a table to summarize various details of a person (life events)
- possibly the inclusion of a picture if the records contains a picture.
I was considering targeting Lyx as the generated files rather than
Latex, as I will need to tweak the data, and potentially add more
details, introductions, explanations etc. that are not included in the
data base. I was wanting to use the pull from the data base as a
starting base to which I need to do more work.
As pointed out by Trevor I could import Latex files to lyx, this is
under consideration but I would still need to generate the Latex files.
In the mean time I've been playing around with the lyx2lyx python code
and created a simple class that can write basic lyx files, I might try
and push this a bit more and see if I can get the elements of lyx that
I'll need to use to work.
Another option with greater flexibility IMHO would be to create an
external inset that would pull the database directly from within LyX.
Abdel.
