Re: LyX and markdown / pandoc

2021-02-14 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 2/14/21 4:03 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 08:58:40PM +0100, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote: >> Projects like >> https://github.com/nicowilliams/lyx2rfc/blob/master/src/lyx2xml.py are, in >> my opinion, doomed to fail in the long run. It is really easier to write >> code to work with

Re: LyX and markdown / pandoc

2021-02-14 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 08:58:40PM +0100, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote: > Projects like > https://github.com/nicowilliams/lyx2rfc/blob/master/src/lyx2xml.py are, in > my opinion, doomed to fail in the long run. It is really easier to write > code to work with LyX documents that directly within LyX, but t

Re: LyX and markdown / pandoc

2021-02-13 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 11:08:57PM +0100, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote: > On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 at 22:42, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 08:58:40PM +0100, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote: > > > Hi Julien, > > > > > > This would be awesome! It would still be quite a lot of work, though (I > >

Re: LyX and markdown / pandoc

2021-02-13 Thread Thibaut Cuvelier
On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 at 22:42, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 08:58:40PM +0100, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote: > > Hi Julien, > > > > This would be awesome! It would still be quite a lot of work, though (I > > have been through a similar pain when rewriting the DocBook export). > > > >

Re: LyX and markdown / pandoc

2021-02-13 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 08:58:40PM +0100, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote: > Hi Julien, > > This would be awesome! It would still be quite a lot of work, though (I > have been through a similar pain when rewriting the DocBook export). > > As far as I can see, the Pandoc format is really poor (after all, i

Re: LyX and markdown / pandoc

2021-02-13 Thread Thibaut Cuvelier
Hi Julien, This would be awesome! It would still be quite a lot of work, though (I have been through a similar pain when rewriting the DocBook export). As far as I can see, the Pandoc format is really poor (after all, it's very similar to Markdown) compared to LyX: conversion to that format will

LyX and markdown / pandoc

2021-02-13 Thread Julien Dutant
Hi Lyx devs, tl;dr: interfacing LyX with pandoc's native or markdown formats would greatly expand its reach by adding many formats to the outputs it can generate and by making it by far the best visual editor for markdown available. What's the best way to go about it? I love LyX and have been usi