On Wednesday 29 August 2007 09:41:50 you wrote:
> > AFAIKS an easy solution is to move the the title and author after the
> > \begin{document} in the original tex file.
>
> Humm... I guess that defeats the point of the procedure, since instead
> of having an automatic conversion I need to manipulate the text file.
> Then I might as well re-write the title and author in LyX...
I was talking about a patch to txt2tags. BTW since it is done in python and
it was so easy it follows attached.
> Is the tex format produced by txt2tags somehow unhortodox? Should I
> annoy its developers about this in their mailing list?
>
> > What we could do in tex2lyx is to output the \maketitle in ERT if there
> > no other title elements, while now we delete it unconditionally.
> >
> > What do others think?
>
> No comments?
The patch to tex2lyx follows attached.
No one is loosing the sleep over this misfeature. ;-)
> Cheers
>
> Alex
OK, now you have two patches to choose. Either you patch tex2lyx or txt2tags,
it is your choice. :-)
--
José Abílio
Index: src/tex2lyx/text.cpp
===================================================================
--- src/tex2lyx/text.cpp (revision 19918)
+++ src/tex2lyx/text.cpp (working copy)
@@ -1107,6 +1107,7 @@
LayoutPtr newlayout;
// Store the latest bibliographystyle (needed for bibtex inset)
string bibliographystyle;
+ bool has_title_layout = false;
bool const use_natbib = used_packages.find("natbib") != used_packages.end();
bool const use_jurabib = used_packages.find("jurabib") != used_packages.end();
while (p.good()) {
@@ -1116,6 +1117,10 @@
cerr << "t: " << t << " flags: " << flags << "\n";
#endif
+ if (context.layout->intitle) {
+ has_title_layout = true;
+ }
+
if (flags & FLAG_ITEM) {
if (t.cat() == catSpace)
continue;
@@ -1710,6 +1715,9 @@
else if (t.cs() == "makeindex" || t.cs() == "maketitle") {
// FIXME: Somehow prevent title layouts if
// "maketitle" was not found
+ if(t.cs() == "maketitle" && !has_title_layout) {
+ handle_ert(os, "\\maketitle", context);
+ }
p.skip_spaces();
skip_braces(p); // swallow this
}
--- txt2tags~ 2006-12-22 01:19:32.000000000 +0000
+++ txt2tags 2007-08-30 22:35:02.000000000 +0100
@@ -434,9 +434,9 @@
\usepackage[%(ENCODING)s]{inputenc} %% char encoding
\usepackage{%(STYLE)s} %% user defined
+\begin{document}
\title{%(HEADER1)s}
\author{%(HEADER2)s}
-\begin{document}
\date{%(HEADER3)s}
\maketitle
\clearpage
