Bug#198381: [Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#198381: Could you please check if the new output is what you would consider a sane output

[Sven Hoexter]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 02:41:23PM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 05:43:15PM +0200, Sven Hoexter wrote:
> > It seems that it's quite hard to get a proper plain text export from LyX
> > directly. Upstream works on support for ps2ascii/pstotext support (similar to
> > the pdf export options you have) so that you can create ascii exports from the
> > generated postscript documents which should work a lot better. I hope that
> > it'll work around #198380 aswell.
> 
> This sounds like a very good idea.  A direct export is preferably if there
> are useful things you can do with the semantic markup of LyX, but if not,
> or if ASCII rendering of PostScript is very good, then the intermediate
> processing step may not be that noticeable.
Don't expect too much. I just played a little bit with the various postscript
converters and the results are a little bit better than the current export
from LyX but still broken in other ways.

Maybe I can get Jose to work a little bit more on the LyX output to get it in
the proposed format. 

Cheers,
Sven
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