On Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:32:12 -0400
Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote:

> On 06/10/2013 06:05 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> > These days, it could be used as a front end to anything with the
> > proper styles defined, and the proper converter. So the same LyX
> > file could be used to output LaTeX, MSWord doc, XHTML, HTML, simple
> > HTML, or who knows what else.
> >
> > To more easily accommodate this, it seems to me like layout files
> > should be split into an input side and an output side, with the
> > output side capable of multiple output formats. So the input side
> > might look something like this:
> >
> > CharStyle MyEmph
> > Font
> >     Shape Italic
> > EndFont
> >
> > if outputtype == latex
> >     outputName      latexlayout.layout/myemphL
> >     outputType      Command
> > elsif outputtype == simplehtml
> >     outputName      simphtmllayout.layout/myemphH
> >     outputType      InlineTag
> > else outputtype == msword
> >     outputName      winwordlayout.layout/myemphW
> >     outputType      CharacterStyle
> > End
> >
> > Environments would be similar.
> >
> > Ideally it would be designed so that it doesn't syntax check inside
> > the output type's it's not. That way you can develop one output
> > type at a time without getting errors from the ones you haven't
> > developed yet.
> 
> This can already be done, more or less. That is, I can't imagine 
> anything you'd want to do, as far as XHTML export goes, that isn't 
> provided for in the layout files.
> 
> Indeed, I am sufficiently confident about this that I'd be surprised
> if it were not possible to build the sort of simple HTML export you
> want simply by writing a new layout file.

Thanks Richard,

When I tried to do this with my layout file, it failed miserably. Try
as I might, I couldn't get Standard to map to <p>, nor could I get
Section to map to <h1>, etc.

SteveT

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