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List:       lyx-users
Subject:    Re: Re: Importing HTML
From:       Guenter Milde <G.Milde () physik ! tu-dresden ! de>
Date:       2002-09-12 8:41:19
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On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:56:58PM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> I have some HTML files, I want to import into LyX (well, you might guess
> that from the subject line).  The route I am using is to use
> gnuhtml2latex (that's what's available on my Debian system) to convert
> the HTML to LaTex, and then use the standard LaTeX import.
> (I am using LyX 1.1.6fix4; Debian doesn't have 1.2 yet)
> 
> Unfortunately, what I get is a horrible file with lots of ERT,
> for example ERT "\par" at every paragraph instead of it actually realizing
> they are paragraphs.

IMHO, the problem lies with relyx (i.e.  the standard LaTeX import). It
doesnot really convert the \par to paragraph-breaks.

> > (b) someone can point me towards a resource describing LyX-file syntax
> > so that I can write my own direct HTML->LyX converter (though this may
> > be a pointless exersize since the LyX syntax has probably changed in 1.2
> > anyway...)
> > I am not a LaTeX person, but I do know how to write Perl scripts... 8-)

reLyX is perl, so you could try to improve there...

guenter

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