Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I was a little scared by the changes found in development/FORMAT, and > > I'm starting to think that it would be easier to parse the generated > > TeX directly.
> Definitely not. Proper TeX parsing is a nightmare. That's surely true. But it (TeX) is a stable target, so if *someone* has written a *good* TeX parser that you can leverage, I'd recommend you use that. For example, if you were using Python rather than Ruby, you might consider leveraging plastex (http://plastex.sourceforge.net/) If, however, no such parser currently exists, then I would *not* recommend that you go that route. It would be much easier to parse LyX format directly and to do as lyx2lyx does and add modules to "upgrade" to the latest format as it changes. Note that the "big idea" for the next version of LyX (the 1.6 development series) is to switch to an XML file format which would ease your task considerably. Angus
