Table of Contents in Text output?
How do I get the table of contents generated with ascii text
output?
I was playing with the
example_lyxified.lyx
and I exported the output to text.
I used the File|Export|Ascii Text.. option.
When I edit the text output, I see
THIS IS THE TITLE OF THE DOCUMENT
by Fee LyX
June 12, 1972
\tableofcontents{}
1 Basic Philosophy
The basic philosophy of LyX is that you should worry about the content
of what you're writing and not the form.
As you can see, it generates
\tableofcontents{}
instead of an actual table of contents. How do I get it
do generate an actual table of contents. I would like
the output similar to this text linux doc.
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Alpha-HOWTO
brian
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Brian Lavender
http://www.brie.com/brian/
Re: Table of Contents in Text output?
Brian Lavender wrote:
>
> How do I get the table of contents generated with ascii text
> output?
> I was playing with the
> example_lyxified.lyx
> and I exported the output to text.
> I used the File|Export|Ascii Text.. option.
> When I edit the text output, I see
>THIS IS THE TITLE OF THE DOCUMENT
>by Fee LyX
>June 12, 1972
>\tableofcontents{}
>1 Basic Philosophy
>The basic philosophy of LyX is that you should worry about the content
>of what you're writing and not the form.
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Alpha-HOWTO
you can export to pdf or ps and than with
pdftotext or ps2ascii
especially the first one gives a good result and you have
the pdf-file too.
Herbert
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://perce.de/lyx/
Re: Table of Contents in Text output?
Brian Lavender wrote: > How do I get the table of contents generated with ascii text and quoted part of the output of an attempted conversion to ascii, the familiar LyX credo: >The basic philosophy of LyX is that you should worry about the content >of what you're writing and not the form. Herbert Voss then suggested you can export to pdf or ps and than with pdftotext or ps2ascii Herbert's suggestion is, as usual, timely and correct. But I wonder: if the philosopy of LyX is that the user should worry about content and not the form of what is being written, shouldn't the user be able to export to commonly used formats, like ascii without the gyrations of converting to pdf or ps and then to ascii? I've seen comparably complicated recommendations for getting a word-count and other operations that shouldn't require the user to look up the procedure and revert to an xterm and a shell to run off scripts and pipelines. I'm a staunch advocate of LyX. I admire and appreciate the hard-working individuals who have been refining LyX and adding new features. I just hope that as LyX evolves, and more features are added, we don't lose sight of the original philosophy, and that the KISS principle (Keep It Simple Stupid) continues to apply to the user interface as well as the WYSIWYM concept. -- Ronald Florence http://members.home.net/18james
Re: Table of Contents in Text output?
What these internal export functions do is export VERBATIM. They don't and aren't meant to run the stuff through LaTeX first. If, however, you want to do this, then you can use the new, customisable export facility of LyX 1.1.6pre3. If you're not familiar with the process, here's how: Open the Edit->Preferences dialog and bring up the Converters->Format tabbed folder It should have formats defined like ASCII, PDF etc Define a new format, textprocessed Format: textprocessed GUI name: ASCII(processed) Extension: txt Press the Add button on the tabbed folder and then the Apply button on the main form. Now open the Converters->Converters tabbed folder. Create a new converter From: PDF (pdflatex) To: ASCII(processed) Converter: pdflatex $$i $$o Again press Add and then Apply. (The comments should help you through the process). If you want to save this new stuff permanently, press Save, otherwise Cancel. Now you should be able to export the processed ASCII text from File->Export->ASCII(processed). See! Simple! A great reason to upgrade! (Note of course that this is a pre- version so ALWAYS back up before using it.) Angus On Tuesday 09 January 2001 18:56, Ronald Florence wrote: > Brian Lavender wrote: > > How do I get the table of contents generated with ascii text > > and quoted part of the output of an attempted conversion to ascii, the > > familiar LyX credo: > >The basic philosophy of LyX is that you should worry about the > > content of what you're writing and not the form. > > Herbert Voss then suggested > > you can export to pdf or ps and than with > pdftotext or ps2ascii > > Herbert's suggestion is, as usual, timely and correct. But I wonder: > if the philosopy of LyX is that the user should worry about content > and not the form of what is being written, shouldn't the user be able > to export to commonly used formats, like ascii without the gyrations > of converting to pdf or ps and then to ascii? I've seen comparably > complicated recommendations for getting a word-count and other > operations that shouldn't require the user to look up the procedure > and revert to an xterm and a shell to run off scripts and pipelines. > > I'm a staunch advocate of LyX. I admire and appreciate the > hard-working individuals who have been refining LyX and adding new > features. I just hope that as LyX evolves, and more features are > added, we don't lose sight of the original philosophy, and that the > KISS principle (Keep It Simple Stupid) continues to apply to the user > interface as well as the WYSIWYM concept.
Re: Table of Contents in Text output?
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 01:56:50PM -0500, Ronald Florence wrote: > Brian Lavender wrote: > > > How do I get the table of contents generated with ascii text > > Herbert's suggestion is, as usual, timely and correct. But I wonder: > if the philosopy of LyX is that the user should worry about content > and not the form of what is being written, shouldn't the user be able > to export to commonly used formats, like ascii without the gyrations > of converting to pdf or ps and then to ascii? I've seen comparably > complicated recommendations for getting a word-count and other > operations that shouldn't require the user to look up the procedure > and revert to an xterm and a shell to run off scripts and pipelines. The CVS version now creates a table of contents when doing ascii export, so this feature will be in 1.1.6 which will be released soon.
