hi,
> Hello all, I'm a long-time LaTeX user but new to LyX. I am currently
> working on a package to convert Word-using literature scholars to open
> formats and the benefits of TeX. Specifically, I am trying to
> find/write a sensible GUI to the ledmac package for typesetting
> critical editions. I have some C experience and would be willing to
i'm playing in last weeks with the idea to write support for ledpar
package. the main problem is too little spare time for exploring
everything around (ledmac/ledpar, lyx code, etc...). but it may be
possible to merge our efforts if you want to. (?)
> work with the code but I'm hoping there's an easier way. I would
> appreciate if anyone could help with two problems:
>
> First is facing-page translations. I would like to just display them
> in LyX as a special table environment, and specify a way to export
> them to LaTeX. The LaTeX command looks like
>
> \translatedPoem{ ... original ... }{ ... translation ... }
>
> Any chance of this working, or should I just write a script to convert
> the exported file? How much would it take to add a button to LyX and
> have it run: export LaTeX > conversion script > XeTeX resulting file >
> open result?
if you will progress anyhow on this feel free to contact me for debugging etc.
maybe some lyx wiki page to discuss further details would be possible.
good luck
pavel
