On Thursday 19 July 2001 00:57, ben wrote:
> Robin Turner a écrit :
> > Does anyone know of a utility that will clean up (La)TeX files so that
> > ReLyX can handle them? I've a .tex file that was automatically generated
> > (by Jade?) from a DocBook file and is too messy for LyX to import. I
> > suppose what I'm looking for is the equivalent of the Tidy program for
> > HTML.
>
> You still want to import a DocBook file into LyX isn't it? I still
> recommend to use the
> http://perso.libertysurf.fr/bgu/#DB2LyX tool. But if you prefer starting
> from the LaTeX format I suggest to translate your DocBook file to a pure
> readable latex file with the http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/db2latex
> stylesheets. The jade latex file is specific to jadetex (specific macros,
> etc.) and its doesn't seem easy to use relyx on it.
Yes, though it would be useful for other things as well. I tried installing
DB2Lyx some time back, but got lost among the dependencies (my usual problem
- I still haven't managed to get html2latex working either, as my system
won't do "make" on some of the required Perl modules). I'll have another go.
Robin
