On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 18:20:12 -0600 stefano franchi <[email protected]> wrote:
> But it fails on several counts, with the tools I tried, for the > reasons listed in my message. Yeah, I wouldn't expect much from the various converters and exporters. LaTeX can be used in a styles-based way, but it's not especially styles-based. And LyX was originally created as a front end for LaTeX. If LyX had been created as a front end for HTML5+CSS, it would be a completely different story. > To which I should add > > 5. htlatex > Does not work with Luatex. And switching from LuaTeX to pdflatex is > not really an option, as the document and the bibliography have a mix > of English, French, and Italian, with lots of diacritics. I would > have to manually convert everything to Latex's codes, I guess. Or > find a tool that does it for me. If not LuaTeX or pdflatex, howbout just plain LaTeX, or MikiTeX, or livetex or texmf and the like? > > I really cannot see the way out of this problem, which is bad, as we > are currently proposing a LyX-->doc/odt (possibly roundtrip) > conversion as a GSOC 2014 project. Personally I'd make a roundtrip between LyX and ***semantically intelligent** HTML5 as well formatted XML, or perhaps XHTML, and then another one between the (X)HTML and doc/odt. Much more bang for the buck, easier to split among developers, and probably the end product would be better. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance
