[MPlayer-dev-eng] A Modest LyX/HTML Example

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Wed Feb 27 07:42:38 CET 2002


On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:32:18PM -0700, Mike Melanson wrote:
> Hi team,
> 	Gabucino: I threw together a modest example of MPlayer
> documentation written in LyX and converted to one monolithic HTML
> page. You can view the HTML here:
>   http://www.pcisys.net/~melanson/mplayerdoc.html
> It's also possible to have the conversion program output to multiple
> pages, all linked together. Here's the .lyx work file for you to try out
> in your own copy of LyX:
>   http://www.pcisys.net/~melanson/mplayerdoc.lyx
> 
> 	I'd be willing to help you out with porting the documentation to
> LyX if you decide to go that route. Though I realize that we'd probably
> need buy-in from the maintainers of the other language translations.

Why not work in just clear LaTeX or texinfo instead? Requiring LyX
seems to be an unnecessary pain if other people are going to be
working on the docs too. Last I checked, normal LyX (as opposed to the
KDE port KLyX) also required XForms which is non-free...

Rich




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