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is already quite lengthy, and it contains information on all of the basic
features one needs to know in order to prepare most documents.
- However, the LyX Team has worked to LyX extensible through various configuratio
-n files and external packages.
+ However, the LyX Team has worked to make LyX extensible through various
+ configuration files and external packages.
That means that if you want to support the Fizzwizzle LaTeX package, you
can create a layout file (or module) for it without having to alter LyX
itself.
- We've already had contributions of several new features this way.
- This is the place where all of those get documented.
+ We've already had contributions of several new features this way, and some
+ of them are documented here.
+ There are also some more `advanced' features, such as how to control the
+ presentation of bibliographies and how to work with multi-part documents,
+ that are not covered in the
+\emph on
+User's Guide
+\emph default
+ and are discussed here.
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This manual also documents some special features, like fax support, version
control, and SGML support, which require additional software to work properly.
- Lastly, there's a chapter of LaTeX tools and tips, things you can use to
- spruce up your documents by directly using the powerful features of LaTeX.
+ There is also a chapter on LyX's support for HTML.
+ And lastly, there's a chapter of LaTeX tools and tips, things you can use
+ to spruce up your documents by directly using the powerful features of
+ LaTeX.
After all, LyX
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is
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-Since all the topics in this manual depend heavily on LyX's interaction
+Since many of the topics in this manual depend heavily on LyX's interaction
with LaTeX, this first chapter covers the inner workings of LyX and how
to direct LyX to generate exactly the LaTeX code you want.
It is obviously for more seasoned LyX users.
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-The basics how to use BibTeX are explained in section
+The most basic information about how to use BibTeX with LyX is contained
+ in the section
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Bibliography databases (BibTeX)
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+\begin_layout Chapter
+LyX and the World Wide Web
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+LyX has long supported the export of documents to various web-friendly formats,
+ such as HTML.
+ Before verson 1.7, however, HTML export was always accomplished by the use
+ of external converters.
+\begin_inset Foot
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+For details on the use of external converters with LyX, see the
+\size normal
+\emph on
+Converters
+\emph default
+ section of the Customization manual.
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+ These fall into two large groups: there are converters that use LaTeX as
+ an intermediate format, such as
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+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+htlatex
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+,
+\begin_inset Flex CharStyle:Code
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+html2latex
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+, and
+\begin_inset Flex CharStyle:Code
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+plastex
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+, relying upon LyX to produce the LaTeX; and there is a converter that works
+ directly on LyX files,
+\begin_inset Flex CharStyle:Code
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+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+eLyXer
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+.
+ All of these have different advantages and disadvantages.
+
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+
+\begin_layout Standard
+The LaTeX-based converters have the advantage that, in principle, they know
+ everything about the exported document that LaTeX does.
+ Such converters do not care, for example, if a certain block of code was
+ produced by LyX or was Evil Red Text.
+ They know about
+\begin_inset Flex CharStyle:Code
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+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+aux
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+ files, counters, and references, and can often make use of the
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+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+bbl
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+ files generated by BibTeX.
+ On the other hand, LaTeX is a very hard language to parse---it is sometimes
+ said that only TeX itself understands TeX---and LaTeX-based converters
+ will often choke on what seem to be quite simple constructs; complex ones
+ can throw them completely, and as of this writing, for example, the
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+\emph default
+ manual will not export with
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+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+htlatex
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+, though the others will.
+ The other issue concerns how math is handled.
+ These converters typically convert the formulae into little pictures that
+ are then linked from the HTML document.
+ Since these are actually generated by LaTeX, they are accurate.
+ But they do not scale well, and just getting them to look as if they are
+ actually meant to be in your document---so that the font sizes seem to
+ be roughly the same---can be a challenge.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+Alex Fernandez's
+\begin_inset Flex CharStyle:Code
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+eLyXer
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+ solves some of these problems.
+ In particular, its rendering of math tends to look better than
+\begin_inset Flex CharStyle:Code
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+htlatex
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+'s, at least in simpler cases, since it renders math using a neat combination
+ of HTML and CSS rather than converting the formulae to images.
+ But more complex formula tend to be rendered less well than with
+\begin_inset Flex CharStyle:Code
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+htlatex
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+, since there is no reasonable way of scaling parentheses in HTML, for example.
+ More importantly (as of version 0.39, at least),
+\begin_inset Flex CharStyle:Code
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+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+eLyXer
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+ has no support for math macros, for user-defined paragraph or character
+ styles, or for tables of contents and figures.
+ These limitations make
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+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+eLyXer
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+ unsuitable for many of the documents more advanced LyX users would produce.
+ In principle, of course, all of these problems could be solved, but the
+ LyX developers have decided to follow a different path and made LyX itself
+ capable of writing XHTML, just as it is capable of writing LaTeX, DocBook,
+ and plaintext.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+As of this writing, XHTML output remains under development and should probably
+ be regarded as
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+
+experimental
+\begin_inset Quotes erd
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+.
+\begin_inset Foot
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+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+The file
+\begin_inset Flex CharStyle:Code
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+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+development/HTML.notes
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+, which can be found in the LyX source tree or
+\begin_inset CommandInset href
+LatexCommand href
+name "accessed online"
+target "http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/development/HTML/HTML.notes"
+
+\end_inset
+
+, usually contains up-to-date information about the state of XHTML output.
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+ Still, the developers have chosen this approach because it has several
+ potential advantages over the other two.
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+\begin_layout Standard
+These advantages are primarily due to the fact that the XHTML output routines,
+ since they are part of LyX, know everything LyX knows about the document
+ being exported.
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+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+Another advantege is that, since these routines are internal to LyX, they
+ are immune to changes in LyX's file format, or to changes in the semantics
+ of existing insets.
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+ So they know about the table of contents (as displayed in the Outline),
+ about the counters associated with different paragraph styles, and about
+ user-defined styles.
+ The XHTML output routines know what LyX knows about internationalization,
+ too, so they will output
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+
+Chaper 1
+\begin_inset Quotes erd
+\end_inset
+
+ or
+\begin_inset Quotes eld
+\end_inset
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+
+\lang ngerman
+Kapitel
+\lang english
+ 1
+\begin_inset Quotes erd
+\end_inset
+
+, depending upon the language in effect at the time.
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+Quite generally, the output routines know everything LyX knows about document
+ layout, that is, about the document is to be rendered on screen.
+ We can use this information when we output the document as XHTML.
+ In particular, LyX
+\emph on
+automatically
+\emph default
+ generates CSS style information corresponding to the layout information
+ it uses to render the document on screen: if section headings are supposed
+ to be sans-serif and bold as seen in LyX, then (by default) they will be
+ sans-serif and bold when viewed in a web browser, too.
+ And this is true not just for pre-defined styles, like Section, but for
+ any style, including user-defined styles.
+ Indeed, the XHTML output routines make no distinction between user-defined
+ paragraph and character styles and LyX's own pre-defined styles: in each
+ case, everything LyX knows about the styles is contained in the layout
+ files.
+ And much the same is true as regards pre-defined textual insets, such as
+ footnotes, and custom versions.
+
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+The result is that XHTML output can be customized and extended in
+\emph on
+exactly
+\emph default
+ the same way LaTeX output can be customized and extended: through layout
+ files and modules.
+ See chapter five of the
+\emph on
+Customization
+\emph default
+manual for the details.
+\end_layout
+
+\begin_layout Standard
+As for math, LyX renders math using MathML.
+ This has advantages and disadvantages.
+ The advantage is that MathML is a dialect of XML designed specifically
+ for mathematics on the web, and it typically renders very well in browsers
+ that support it.
+ The first disadvantage is that not all browsers support MathML, and support
+ is not complete even in the Gecko-based browsers, such as Firefox.
+ A second disadvantage, as compared to rendering math by images, is that
+ LyX can only output MathML for LaTeX constructs that it knows about, which
+ means that the use of ERT in math---e.g., the command
+\begin_inset Flex CharStyle:Code
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+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+
+\backslash
+BGassert
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+ from the
+\begin_inset Flex CharStyle:Code
+status collapsed
+
+\begin_layout Plain Layout
+begriff.sty
+\end_layout
+
+\end_inset
+
+ package---will produce nothing helpful.
+ Eventually, therefore, LyX will offer the user the option to use MathML
+ or images, and it will offer this choice on a case by case basis.
+\end_layout
+
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is no longer under development and therefore a bit outdated.
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This file type has the extension
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It does not itself contain images and the like but only links them, and
when LyX produces XHTML, it also generates corresponding images in formats
suitable for the purpose.
+ Math is output as MathML, which renders nicely in browsers that support
+ it, but not all do.
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+XHTML output remains
+\begin_inset Quotes eld
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-As of this writing, LyX's `native' XHTML output remains somewhat `experimental',
- and not all LyX features work properly.
- It is our hope, however, that native output will solve many of the problems
- users have encountered when using third-party LyX- or LaTeX-to-HTML converters.
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+under development
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+, and not all LyX features are supported yet.
+ See the chapter
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-Math is output as MathML, which renders nicely in browsers that support
- it, but not all do.
- Eventually, we will offer the option of instead outputing math as images.
+LyX and the World Wide Web
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+\end_inset
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+, in the
+\emph on
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+ manual, for more information.
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