Re: configure.py questions

2015-06-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-06-04 16:26 GMT+02:00 Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org: On 06/04/2015 03:38 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Then you might give Pandoc a try because they state that they can handle biblatex as well. Interesting. I'll do. The (original?) author of the program is someone I know: a

Re: configure.py questions

2015-06-04 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/04/2015 03:38 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: 2015-06-04 1:35 GMT+02:00 Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de mailto:uwesto...@web.de: Am 02.06.2015 um 17:22 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: I never used it, but it would certainly be a valid addition. Note that, even if Pandoc seems

Re: configure.py questions

2015-06-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-06-04 1:35 GMT+02:00 Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de: Am 02.06.2015 um 17:22 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: I never used it, but it would certainly be a valid addition. Note that, even if Pandoc seems to handle BibTeX, htlatex is still outstanding because it supports Biblatex and biber (and

Re: configure.py questions

2015-06-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-06-04 1:35 GMT+02:00 Uwe Stöhr : > Am 02.06.2015 um 17:22 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > > > I never used it, but it would certainly be a valid addition. Note that, > >> even if Pandoc seems to handle BibTeX, htlatex is still outstanding >> because >> it supports Biblatex

Re: configure.py questions

2015-06-04 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/04/2015 03:38 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: 2015-06-04 1:35 GMT+02:00 Uwe Stöhr >: Am 02.06.2015 um 17:22 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > I never used it, but it would certainly be a valid addition. Note that, even if Pandoc

Re: configure.py questions

2015-06-04 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-06-04 16:26 GMT+02:00 Richard Heck : > On 06/04/2015 03:38 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > Then you might give Pandoc a try because they state that they can handle > biblatex as well. > > Interesting. I'll do. > > > The (original?) author of the program is someone I

Re: configure.py questions

2015-06-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 02.06.2015 um 17:22 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: I never used it, but it would certainly be a valid addition. Note that, even if Pandoc seems to handle BibTeX, htlatex is still outstanding because it supports Biblatex and biber (and it does it very well). Then you might give Pandoc a try

Re: configure.py questions

2015-06-03 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 02.06.2015 um 17:22 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > I never used it, but it would certainly be a valid addition. Note that, even if Pandoc seems to handle BibTeX, htlatex is still outstanding because it supports Biblatex and biber (and it does it very well). Then you might give Pandoc a try

Re: configure.py questions

2015-06-02 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: While we are at it: during my research I read several times that the program Pandoc produces nice results for TeX documents and that it can handle BibTeX. So maybe we should add support for Pandoc to configure.py. If you agree

Re: configure.py questions

2015-06-02 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/02/2015 10:51 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de wrote: While we are at it: during my research I read several times that the program Pandoc produces nice results for TeX documents and that it can handle BibTeX. So maybe we should add

Re: configure.py questions

2015-06-02 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-06-01 23:24 GMT+02:00 Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de: While we are at it: during my research I read several times that the program Pandoc produces nice results for TeX documents and that it can handle BibTeX. So maybe we should add support for Pandoc to configure.py. If you agree I open an

Re: configure.py questions

2015-06-02 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > While we are at it: during my research I read several times that the program > "Pandoc" produces nice results for TeX documents and that it can handle > BibTeX. So maybe we should add support for Pandoc to configure.py. > > If

Re: configure.py questions

2015-06-02 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/02/2015 10:51 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:24 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: While we are at it: during my research I read several times that the program "Pandoc" produces nice results for TeX documents and that it can handle BibTeX. So maybe we should add

Re: configure.py questions

2015-06-02 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-06-01 23:24 GMT+02:00 Uwe Stöhr : > While we are at it: during my research I read several times that the > program "Pandoc" produces nice results for TeX documents and that it can > handle BibTeX. So maybe we should add support for Pandoc to configure.py. > > If you agree I

Re: configure.py questions

2015-06-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
While we are at it: during my research I read several times that the program Pandoc produces nice results for TeX documents and that it can handle BibTeX. So maybe we should add support for Pandoc to configure.py. If you agree I open an enhancement request (don't have time to implement this

Re: configure.py questions

2015-06-01 Thread Uwe Stöhr
While we are at it: during my research I read several times that the program "Pandoc" produces nice results for TeX documents and that it can handle BibTeX. So maybe we should add support for Pandoc to configure.py. If you agree I open an enhancement request (don't have time to implement this

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 31.05.2015 um 09:39 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: I use tex4ht successfully all the time and _strongly_ rely on it. It is the only tex to odt converter that can properly handle bib(la)tex. All the lyx/tex to html converters fail on this. Please do not remove this converter just because it

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-05-31 20:11 GMT+02:00 Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de: Well, May is now over and thus my time. So I will be happy to find enough time to do the documentation work. I fear I will uncover again many bugs while doing this. I am sure you will. Nevertheless, It is time to announce a

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Actually, I am getting rather nervous again since I observe that you try to push in as much features as possible again at a phase when we want to get the major release ready. We should now try to stabilize the code base, not de-stabilize it by adding new stuff. Well, May is now over and thus my

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 31.05.2015 um 19:45 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: As long as tex4ht is not hidden from the view and export menus, adding a second option is finde with me. OK. I'll add a new format odt2 which refers to eLyXer. Please refer to comp.text.tex. I cannot. Gmane does not support this and my

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-05-31 18:28 GMT+02:00 Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de: Please read what I wrote: I did not propose to remove the converter but to remove it from being displayed by default in the view and export menu. I understood, and this is where I object. If tex4ht it works for you we should keep it

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-05-31 19:52 GMT+02:00 Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de: Please refer to comp.text.tex. I cannot. Gmane does not support this and my ISP provides no NNTP. You can read it via Google groups online. However, searching a bit in the lyx-users list I find several complaints that tex4ht does

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 31.05.2015 um 18:43 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: No. I think tex4ht should be the default tex to odt converter. It is far superior to eLyXer. But my patch does not change that. With my patch you will get 2 OpenDocument converters and can choose which one you like. I can also make odt2 the

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-05-31 19:11 GMT+02:00 Uwe Stöhr uwesto...@web.de: Am 31.05.2015 um 18:43 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: No. I think tex4ht should be the default tex to odt converter. It is far superior to eLyXer. But my patch does not change that. With my patch you will get 2 OpenDocument converters

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-05-31 3:13 GMT+02:00 Uwe Stöhr: Many thanks. That is the solution. Attached is the patch for configure.py that does what I want. OK to go in? - Can we maybe get rid of tex4ht or does anybody use this and gets acceptable results. As Gunther said, this is a separate issue. Sure.

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-05-31 3:13 GMT+02:00 Uwe Stöhr: > Many thanks. That is the solution. Attached is the patch for configure.py > that does what I want. OK to go in? > > - Can we maybe get rid of tex4ht or does anybody use this and gets >>> acceptable results. >>> >> >> As Gunther said, this is a separate

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 31.05.2015 um 09:39 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: I use tex4ht successfully all the time and _strongly_ rely on it. It is the only tex to odt converter that can properly handle bib(la)tex. All the lyx/tex to html converters fail on this. Please do not remove this converter just because it

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-05-31 18:28 GMT+02:00 Uwe Stöhr : > Please read what I wrote: I did not propose to remove the converter but to > remove it from being displayed by default in the view and export menu. > I understood, and this is where I object. > > If tex4ht it works for you we should

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 31.05.2015 um 18:43 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: No. I think tex4ht should be the default tex to odt converter. It is far superior to eLyXer. But my patch does not change that. With my patch you will get 2 OpenDocument converters and can choose which one you like. I can also make odt2 the

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-05-31 19:11 GMT+02:00 Uwe Stöhr : > Am 31.05.2015 um 18:43 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > > No. I think tex4ht should be the default tex to odt converter. It is far >> superior to eLyXer. >> > > But my patch does not change that. With my patch you will get 2 > OpenDocument

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 31.05.2015 um 19:45 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > As long as tex4ht is not hidden from the view and export menus, adding a second option is finde with me. OK. I'll add a new format "odt2" which refers to eLyXer. Please refer to comp.text.tex. I cannot. Gmane does not support this and

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-05-31 19:52 GMT+02:00 Uwe Stöhr : > Please refer to comp.text.tex. >> > > I cannot. Gmane does not support this and my ISP provides no NNTP. > You can read it via Google groups online. > > However, searching a bit in the lyx-users list I find several complaints > that

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Actually, I am getting rather nervous again since I observe that you try to push in as much features as possible again at a phase when we want to get the major release ready. We should now try to stabilize the code base, not de-stabilize it by adding new stuff. Well, May is now over and thus my

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-31 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
2015-05-31 20:11 GMT+02:00 Uwe Stöhr : > Well, May is now over and thus my time. So I will be happy to find enough > time to do the documentation work. I fear I will uncover again many bugs > while doing this. > I am sure you will. > > Nevertheless, It is time to announce a

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 29.05.2015 um 17:20 schrieb Richard Heck: There was also a lot of work on this last summer, remember? No. (I was not active last summer.) We should try to get that finished. There is also a program Rob Oakes wrote that uses LibreOffice as a converter. Where can I find this? There is

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-30 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 29.05.2015 um 17:20 schrieb Richard Heck: There was also a lot of work on this last summer, remember? No. (I was not active last summer.) We should try to get that finished. There is also a program Rob Oakes wrote that uses LibreOffice as a converter. Where can I find this? There is

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2015-05-29, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hello LyXers, since I was forced to send many texts I wrote with LyX in the format of MS word, I spend a lot of time to get this to work. The solution is surprisingly simple: - creating a HTML file via eLyXer* and then importing it to Word or LibreOffice-

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-29 Thread Richard Heck
On 05/28/2015 08:09 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hello LyXers, since I was forced to send many texts I wrote with LyX in the format of MS word, I spend a lot of time to get this to work. The solution is surprisingly simple: - creating a HTML file via eLyXer* and then importing it to Word or

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-29 Thread Richard Heck
On 05/28/2015 08:09 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: @Richard: I would like to use our LyXHTML output but there are problems with the images. In LyXHTML the images sizes (\columnwidth etc.) are not respected and therefore it looks horrible in MS Word and Libreoffice. eLyXer is in this respect better as

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-29 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2015-05-29, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Hello LyXers, > since I was forced to send many texts I wrote with LyX in the format of > MS word, I spend a lot of time to get this to work. The solution is > surprisingly simple: > - creating a HTML file via eLyXer* and then importing it to Word or >

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-29 Thread Richard Heck
On 05/28/2015 08:09 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: @Richard: I would like to use our LyXHTML output but there are problems with the images. In LyXHTML the images sizes (\columnwidth etc.) are not respected and therefore it looks horrible in MS Word and Libreoffice. eLyXer is in this respect better as

Re: configure.py questions

2015-05-29 Thread Richard Heck
On 05/28/2015 08:09 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Hello LyXers, since I was forced to send many texts I wrote with LyX in the format of MS word, I spend a lot of time to get this to work. The solution is surprisingly simple: - creating a HTML file via eLyXer* and then importing it to Word or