Thank you very much Rainer for immediate response. I will follow these
steps and come back if I have any issue.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote:
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> On 01/16/14, 06:14 , rajender saini wrote:
> > I got your reference from the gmail lyx posting. Can you help me
> > with the steps include plant uml file into lyx file and
> > automatically get it converted into image when we include it into
> > the lyx master file ?
>
> Sure.
>
> I will CC it to the LyX list to have it there for reference.
>
> I assume you have downloaded plantuml.
>
> 1) Define a new File Format, named "plantuml":
>
> Vector graphics format: I ticked it - what are actually the
> implications of this field?
> Short name: "plantuml"
> Extension: "plantuml"
> So all files with the extension .plantuml will be considered as
> plantuml source code files files!
>
> Editor: I choose Emacs, but set any text editor you want.
>
> In the preferences files, this corresponds to the following line in
> the formats section:
>
> \format "plantuml" "plantuml" "plantuml" "" "" "open -n -a Emacs
> - --args --name LyX --title LyX --no-desktop" "vector"
>
> Now we have to define the converters, i.e. how to convert the plantuml
> file into a format usable by the converter chain in LyX. This now
> depends on you installed converters, but I got the best results when
> using svg as the *only* output format of plantuml, and then use the
> standard converter tools of LyX to convert these into the required
> formats.
>
> The conversion of svg (a vector format) to eps, PDF and PNG
> is done by rsvg, which is detected and configured automatically by
> LyX. If you don't have it installed, install it and re-configure :LyX
> and it should be detected.
>
> Coming back to plantuml: The converter to be defined converts the
> .plantuml to a graphics format .svg (vector):
>
> - From format: "plantuml"
> To format: "SVG
> Converter: /Users/rainerkrug/bin/plantuml $$i -ofile $$o -tsvg
>
> The preference file line is:
>
> \converter "plantuml" "svg" "/Users/rainerkrug/bin/plantuml $$i -ofile
> $$o -tsvg" ""
>
> The last step: What is the file /Users/rainerkrug/bin/plantuml? It is
> *not* the .jar file but the following:
>
> ### BEGIN FILE ##############################
> #!/bin/sh
> # PlantUML Launcher
> #
> # This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> # under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
> # (at your option) any later version.
> #
> # This script distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
> # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> MERCHANTABILITY
> # or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public
> # License for more details.
> # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
> # License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
> # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
> 02110-1301,
> # USA.
> #
> # Copyright (C) 2010 Ilya Paramonov <ivparamo...@gmail.com>
>
> if [ -n "${JAVA_HOME}" ] && [ -x "${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java" ] ; then
> JAVA="${JAVA_HOME}/bin/java"
> elif [ -x /usr/bin/java ] ; then
> JAVA=/usr/bin/java
> else
> echo Cannot find JVM
> exit 1
> fi
>
> $JAVA -jar ~/jar/plantuml.jar -graphvizdot "/usr/local/bin/dot" ${@}
> ### END FILE ##############################
>
> It is from https://gist.github.com/eelcocramer/4502562 and it simply makes
> calling plantuml much easier.
>
> Make sure tht this ~/bin/plantuml is executable!
>
> Now, in LyX, you simply have to add a .plantuml file as a picture, and
> you should be able to edit it via right-mouse-click and it should be
> converted into all the needed formats.
>
> Now This worked for me under Mac (I am using it right now) and Linux
> (used it before). There might be differences under Windows, but I
> would suggest to ask on the mailing list if you don't get it to work,
> so that therte is a reference to this.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Rainer
>
>
>
> >
> > -- Raj Ph:+17737706099
>
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> Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany)
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