Whoops. I meant "Thibaut". I keep putting the "l" in there....
On 8/18/20 9:49 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 8/18/20 11:31 AM, Steve Litt wrote: >> On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 16:49:14 +0200 >> Saša Janiška <g...@atmarama.com> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 18 Aug 2020 03:05:21 -0400 >>> Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: >>> >>>> One man's opinion: If you don't need write once display everywhere, >>>> use LyX for PDF and Bluefish for HTML. >>> Bluefish is still alive? Amazing! >>> >>>> Life will be much simpler, and your HTML will be much less >>>> junkified. >>> I still think about the possibility to write Markdown and use ConteXt >>> for high-quality typesetting. Have you ever used it? >> No. If I were writing Markdown, I'd use Vim or Emacs or Bluefish. That >> way I'd have complete control of what little semantic distinctions >> Markdown gives me. >> >> In my opinion, using LyX to write HTML that isn't intended to also be >> written to PDF is like using a fine woodworking knife to cut 2x4" beams >> to length. > LyX at least has a "write once export anywhere" ambition, though we are > some ways from realizing that, to be sure. But...LyX 2.4 will have much > improved DocBook output, thanks to our new contributor Thibault. > Basically, he has made it possible for ANY document to be output as > DocBook (much as any document can be output as HTML). At least some of > the work Thibault has done will improve the HTML output. But, as I've > said before, the main problem we have with that is simply that no one > has felt sufficiently motivated to do the work to improve it. The hard > work, to produce the infrastructure, has all been done. What's left is > fine-tuning, but since I almost never use HTML export myself, I haven't > felt compelled to do that work. > > A much larger project, though probably not that hard at this point, > would actually unify the HTML and DocBook output routines, to the extent > that is possible, and use configuration files to tell us how to output > various constructs. Then it would not be very hard to export Markdown > natively, or any other format one wished. But again, person-hours are, > as with most open source projects, in short supply. > > Riki > > -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
