On 02/07/14, 17:35 , Rob Oakes wrote: > Hi all,
Hi Rob, good to hear from you on this topic. > > I have been following conversations with significant interest. I > started a new job in the middle of last year. That combined with an > 18-month old little boy have left me almost no time for > extracurriculars. There is no way I can realistically mentor a student > this year. I tried really hard last year, and the effor didn't turn out > quite so well. > > With that said, I would be happy to provide some support to a student > who might be trying to work on a round-trip Python module, or on the > non-linear writing project. If someone else were to be primary mentor, > I could certainly answer questions. > > Re: Round-Tripping > > As others in the thread have mentioned, I think the magic happens in > the export from LyX to Word. There are places where meta-data can be > placed in DOCX so that we can try and preserve LyX-specific features > through a round trip; and if we focus on semantic markup only, I think > we can do a pretty good job of maintaining content. This is exactly what I think the round-triop has to focus on: semantic markup to maintain the content and to have it available after edits for re-import. > > I think this means that we would need our own library to handle the > export. Most of the other modules out there do a very poor job of > handling semantic markup, and instead try and get the styling right. > That way madness lies. The Python module I started hacking on for the > import provides some support for generating docx, but this would need > to be beefed up pretty heavily. Moreover, it would be a really good > idea to make use of XSLT stylesheets to handle the transformation from > docx to LyX, instead of the Python approach I took. This is why I also think that round-trip is a different story then export - import. Different aspects of the document are relevant and need to be preserved. > > On another note, you should also probably have a discussion about how > you want to handle maths. The math XML vocabulary in docx is pretty > well contained, but it would still be an enormous job to translate it > to LyX/LaTeX. For export, we might make use of the MathML support LyX > already supports, and then translate thtat to docx math XML. There may > even be XSLT to do that. I can't comment here, but I think that it would be nice to have this, and in many cases this might be absolutely essential, but it could be addad at a later stage, when the basic round-trip features are in place. But it should definitely be considered. Cheers, Rainer > > Cheers, > > Rob > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
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