> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:38:22 -0400
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Subject: Re: question about lyx
>
> Scott White wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am using LyX 1.5.4 on my Windows XP box. I am creating some documentation
>> and will probably be posting it to the intranet in html. MS Word generated
>> html works but is pretty lame. Someone told me about LyX and how great it
>> was so I decided to give it try. I open LyX, created a new file, pasted in
>> my word document and began converting my stuff to LyX. I quickly fixed my
>> numbered lists, and added sections, subsections, etc. After a couple of
>> hours my document finally started to look presentable. Somethings still
>> bother me:
>> 1) everything is justified. How can I change it to left alignment?
>>
>>
> Other people will answer this question. But let me say: LaTeX is
> generally print-oriented, and in that world, justified is the standard.
> Note that LaTeX microspaces, etc, so this looks proper. If you're going
> to convert to HTML, it probably doesn't matter, since HTML doesn't do
> justification, does it?
Actually I am fairly sure it does. align="justify" is valid html tag. The
current LyX functionality does not use this tag. I just don't want to be
surprised in the future if LyX started to use it.
>> 2) the first line after a section, subsection, subsubsection begins at the
>> left margin, but the other paragraphs under it are indented ie
>> Section Name
>> first paragraph
>> second paragraph
>> third paragraph
>>
> This is normal English typesetting style. If you want no indentation,
> see Document>Settings>Text Layout. If , contrary to everything any
> typesetter will tell you, you nonetheless want the first paragraph
> indented, get the indentfirst package and \usepackage{indentfirst} in
> your Document>Settings>Preamble.
>
> For what it's worth, I prefer no indentation. But that's just me.
I personally prefer no indentation what so ever. I like blocks of text with a
newline between paragraphs, but again that is just me. This typesetting style
is taking some getting used to.
>> 3) when I export to html, a css and html file are generated, I need to keep
>> this to 1 file. I found
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg59378.html but I
>> don't know how or where to run the command.
>>
> Which command? If it's some alternative HTML convert business, then the
> answer is probably: Export to LaTeX; run LaTeX on your exported file;
> then run whatever the HTML conversion command is.
>
> Of course, you can always just take the CSS file and put it between
> .
Sorry I meant converter string: noexist $$i ;latex2html -no_auto_link
-no_navigation -html_version 2.0 -no_subdir -info 0 --split 0 $$i
I don't know what to do with it, but I forgot about just copying and pasting
into the style section.
>> 4) when I test the resulting file for w3 validation it tests as valid, but I
>> get warnings about NET-enabling start-tag requires SHORTTAG YES on As I
>> understand this the is for XHTML and not HTML so why is this here?
>>
> This has nothing to do with LyX and everything to do with whatever HTML
> converter you are using. See Tools>Preferences>Converters, and look for
> HTML to see what you're using.
htlatex $$i is the converter listed, but looking at my directory structure I
think it is MiKTeX 2.7. Looking at this screen maybe the converter string from
above should go here?? Basically I just downloaded
LyX-154-1-Installer-Bundle.exe and selected all of the defaults.
A quick Google for latex to html and tex4ht looks OK.
http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html has a list of converters I
think I will try. I will give plastex a try first though.
>> 5) finally the resulting html is better than Word but not great, ie:
>> //extra space
>> // needless new line and extra space
>>
>> // way too much whitespace
>>
>>
>> My Document 3
>>
>> This is the first line in my document however when the html is generated
>> the line gets broken up by spans
>> Why are there so many spans? Why is span and class separated by a newline?
>>
>>
> Try various converters. Some of them do better than others, and which
> one does best can depend upon the document. I hear plastex is pretty good.
>
> The nice thing here is: You have lots of options. And if you want to
> "clean up" the LaTeX a bit before you convert, you can write a
> perl/python/ruby/sed script to do it for you.
Thanks,
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