Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> writes: > On 02/27/2014 03:44 AM, Prannoy Pilligundla wrote: >> >> I also had a look at pandoc and tex4ht but as they are converters >> from Latex,i feel we should only consider them as secondary options. > > I believe pandoc is pretty modular. One would only need to add LyX to > the list of formats that it handles and then, like magic, we could > convert the LyX format to anything else that pandoc handles. It seems > to me that this would be a very good approach.
I really like pandoc, and it would be in my opinion, the perfect companion for one way export from LyX - as you said, this would be like magic. But it does not provide conversion from the target formats, only from: ,---- | markdown, reStructuredText, textile, HTML, DocBook, LaTeX, MediaWiki | markup, OPML, or Haddock markup `---- see [1] for details. Therefore I don't see it as useful for the round trip. > > The downside to any python-based approach, though, is that the LyX > format is a moving target. The script would need to be updated with > every syntax change. I assume that in LyX, there is an API which could be used to convert *independent* from the file format? I don't assume they are exposed outside LyX so that they can be accessed from e.g. python? Along this lines - I guess there are no news about the LyX xml format? Rainer > > Richard > > Footnotes: [1] http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ -- Rainer M. Krug email: RMKrug<at>gmail<dot>com
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