From: Terry P. <te...@d2...> - 2003-06-02 23:02:12
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On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 09:43:59 +0200 "Bernhard Held" <Ber...@be...> wrote: > > > In the given link isn't a > > > single table. I've less problems with tables in the TXT export than in > HTML! > > > > Yikes,! > > Do you have problems with native Latex tables and latex2html, ie no Lyx in > the process ? > I never had any problems with native Latex tables, because I never wrote a > "plain Latex" document :-> Hahah, I found that Lyx just couldn't satisfy my needs so I started writing native Latex a couple of years ago. I even scraped together a film.cls file for scriptwriting that has received praises of aclaim from the two people who have used it over the last couple of years ;-) > > > On Lyx, I recently installed it just so as to make a html copy of an old > Ddcc user manual. > > As I'm currently using Debian (stable), I had no Lyx package, so I had to > build my own. I searched > > Google for the latest Xforms but could not find it (its supposed to be > GPL) and most > > of the links to Xforms were broken. All in all it was a very time > consuming process. > > > > In the end I found an old Xforms binary and managed to get Lyx going long > enough to make the html > > file, but Lyx kept crashing. In the long therm is Lyx such a good idea, > given its dependency > > on Xforms, or am I missing something ? > I've never experienced any stability problems with lyx (SuSE distribution, > editing sdccman.lyx and cdbfileformat.lyx). Debian won't include Lyx because it's not based on all GPL apps, hence my problems. I'm sure that for other distros its not a problem. I guess in the end its a lot easier to use Lyx for Sdcc docs than learn Latex ? And from my own pov, Latex is a lot easier to write docs in than plain HTML, or Docbook etc. -- Kind Regards Terry Homemade pcbs using Gnu/LinuX gEDA/PCB page :- http://w3w.arafuraconnect.com.au/~tp/pcbs.html Gnu/Linux/Debian-3.0 Registration Number: 103931 :http//counter.li.org * Free Software provided by GNU; http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html |