John Pye wrote: > The perl module cited as prereq doesn't exist on CPAN. Not that I could > find with search.
from the first google hit for perlmif: http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-authors/id/EHOOD/ > Nope. Converting from frame to latex is a flakey process. No point going > via latex here. You will need that at least for the formulas, since LyX stores formulas in LaTeX syntax. > That might be interesting. Is there no XML-based Lyx file format yet? This is planned, and Lars Gullik Bjønnes did some experiments with it, but nothing more. > What does lyx2lyx do, I can't see any documentation on the net. It translates old .lyx files to the current format. The other way round does also work, but only for 1.4 -> 1.3 conversions. The LyX class I already mentioned has also limited capabilities for creating .lyx files from scratch. > Come to that, is there a lyx file format reference somewhere? AFAIK only in the sources :-( > My best best really does seem to be to write an XSLT to convert from > either mif2xml output (or the direct Framemaker XML-export output) to a > *structured file format* that Lyx can read reliably. I tried to write > out XML directly but it seemed really hard to resolve the whitespace > problems. It might also be possible to use LyX itself to write the file and do the conversion via commands sent to the lyxpipe. See http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/PyClient Georg
