Hi Ray, On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:35 AM, Ray Rashif <schivmeis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 March 2013 07:12, Alex Fernandez <ely...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As Liviu discovered, just to let you all know that I had to release 1.2.5 > > because of problems with the 1.2.4 release (the binary lacked a couple of > > patches; otherwise the source code was fine). > > Alex, when I first heard of eLyXer -- amidst mounting frustrations > resulting from several failed attempts at converting a 350-page > document to any other usable format -- I thought it was just another > deceptive solution and gave it a miss entirely. > > How wrong I was, how deceptively brilliant this is! I was expecting I > would have to at least input child documents, but it worked its magic > on the master document itself. Believe me, nothing else ever worked, > and this is a complex document with LaTeX hacks here and there. > > Sure, there were some issues, like not recognising some (or all) LaTeX > commands, external inset, and ignoring some BibTeX entries, but I now > have a usable single-file HTML verbatim copy of the main contents, > complete with (cross-)references and images. > > The software had been lying dormant as a package in my (GNU/Linux) > distribution's unofficial buildscripts repository [1] with no love at > all, but I'll be promoting it directly to a supported binary > repository as soon as I get some time -- no-one should miss this. > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/elyxer/ Glad you are doing this. I will add you to the list of maintainers if you want, and send you any announcements directly. Thanks, Alex.
