On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:25 AM, Alex Fernandez <alejandro...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi folks, > > eLyXer is a LyX-to-HTML direct converter that can be used from within > LyX. It came out of my own needs to publish both to PDF and HTML > formats; LyX looked like a great fit for PDF but HTML export was > rather poor. Thanks to the support of many LyX developers I published > it for others to use; and unlike other similar tools it is actively > maintained and getting better all the time. > > You have probably not heard from eLyXer for a long time (or at all) > unless you are subscribed to the lyx-devel list. Well, in this > interval it has improved a lot, as you can see in the change log for > 0.38 (just released): > http://www.nongnu.org/elyxer/changelog.html > It translates correctly most documents, even those with symbols and > equations, and produces acceptable output for most uses. The official > LyX documentation (User Guide, Math Guide and Embedded Objects Guide) > can be converted with minimal loss of format and content. The future > roadmap has a lot of interesting milestones like splitting the output > by chapters or sections, or full conversion of the LyX documentation. > > If you want to try it out and you are on Debian testing you have it > easy: eLyXer is just an > # apt-get install elyxer > away. On Windows you can try the alternate installer, which has just > been published recently for 1.6.5: > http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinInstaller > It includes the latest version of eLyXer. On a different platform, or > just to try out a particular version, just download it from the > project download area: > https://savannah.nongnu.org/files/?group=elyxer > and follow the instructions on the user guide: > http://www.nongnu.org/elyxer/userguide.html#toc-Subsection-1.2 > > If you have a document which comes out all wrong please send it my > way, either confidentially or lorem-ipsumized; I will do my best to > make it work. Also send bug reports, feature requests and whatever > crosses your mind. Thanks to you eLyXer is improving outside my > (rather narrow) needs. > > Thanks, > > Alex Fernández. > Hey Alex, Thanks for a fantastic tool! I use it to generate my book's output (see here: http://www.erlangforskeptics.com/book/). Cheers, Luke
