My current plan for include files works like this: In the main program, I loop over a filelist & translate each file. The filelist at first contains just the file name given on the command line. While I'm translating a tex file, if I find a \include command (let's worry about \input without braces later, ok?) I get the name of that file & add it to the filelist. So when I finish translating that file, I'll go back to the main program and get to the end brace of the while loop, only now the filelist contains more files, so I go back to the top & translate more files. The question is, what do I put into those included lyx files. I think asger may have answered this question already, but it can't hurt to ask it again. Options: (a) put in a whole lyx preamble, including both lyx options and the latex preamble we read from the main file (b) put in a lyx preamble including just lyx options (c) put in *nothing*, because we're just going to use "Insert->Include File" on those files anyway, and Insert->Include doesn't need a preamble. I first thought the answer was (a). Then I thought it was (c). Now I think it's (a) again. Right? It seems like you need to generate a legal lyx file so that lyx can load it separately. And it seems like the legal definition is that it has the first two lines ((C) matthias) and the \lyxformat, plus a \the_end. And I guess I can't do (b) because then you'll have two copies of the preamble. I think. The other exciting news is that once we do this, it becomes amazingly simple to run reLyX on latex fragments. And that means that as soon as one of those lazy developers gets around to it, we can import latex fragments into existing lyx files! Here, it seems (based on a couple experiments) like we'd be allowed to generate files without even the three top lines & the_end, but I could be wrong about that too. Thoughts? -Amir
