eLyXer

LyX is a wonderful text editor which produces beautiful PDF files. Internally it exports documents to LaTeX, and from there to PDF.

It can convert documents generated with LyX versions from 1.5.5 to 1.6.2 into valid HTML pages.

The output requires XHTML, CSS2 and Unicode; therefore a CSS2-compatible browser is required.

Minimum browser versions for some popular programs are: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Mozilla Firefox 3, Safari 3 and Chrome 1.

What is new in this release:

• Changed the license for math2html from Apache v2 to FreeBSD 2-clause license, to better suit integration with DocUtils.
• Removed a false positive error which appeared during the tests: "* No title in".
• Added most commands in Gunter Milde's excellent list of Unicode to LaTeX commands, except categories mathaccent, mathfence, mathradical, mathover and mathunder. Examples: \hash as  ⋕ , \smalltriangleleft as ◃.
• Deprecated option --jsmath, users are encouraged to use --mathjax instead.
• Added argument --mathjax remote to access the MathJax CDN instead of hit a local copy. Changed the Math showcase to work remotely by default.
• Solved Debian bug 639712: eLyXer didn't accept Unicode characters in --title option, added test.
• Solved Savannah bug 33961: eLyXer didn't support sub- or superscript insets as used in LyX 2.0, added test.
• Solved installation problem when $PATH contains a directory which does not exist; the eLyXer binary was created with the same name as said directory. Now install.py should just ignore the directory.

What is new in version 1.2.2:

• Bug in description: when a (non-empty) ERT is the first element of a description, use it as first word and make it bold.
• Proper support for \scriptstyle and \scriptscriptstyle: script, scriptscript.
• Bug #33156: CSS specification as in --css=lyx.css was not working, solved now.
• Support for \noindent and \centering in ERTs.
• Ignore BibTeX entries which are not publication entries. Show a debug message for non-referenced entries.
• Understand command \& in BibTeX files.
• Bumped Lyx format supported (--lyxformat) to 413 (LyX 2.0.0).
• Solved error when parsing display formulas generated with LyX 2.0: "Formula beginning \begin_inset Formula is unknown" (thanks, Pascal!). Added test case.
• Added a bunch of new symbols, including \textsection §, \textemdash - or \v{z} ž.
• Changed output characters for English quotes, from Unicode " and ‘ to HTML entities “ and ‘.
• Make Flex styles in titles work.
• Make custom Flex CharStyles work: generate HTML spans of the same class as the Flex type.

What is new in version 1.2.0:

• Bumped LyX version support to 410.
• Correctly create big brackets for environments with odd alignments such as matrix (thanks, Gunther!).
• Create and use big brackets for fractions and other structures, if needed.
• Added option --simplemath to avoid fancy math structures: do not generate multi-line Unicode brackets or stacked limits.
• eLyXer is now a proper Python package, instead of just a coalesced script elyxer.py containing everything. However only the script is installed right now.
• Interpret TeXCode (previously known as Evil Red Text) as TeX commands and formulas.
• Support for TeX commands \textvisiblespace, \AmS, \parbox, \tag, \rule, and more: , AmS.
• Support for \Game: ?.
• Changed the navigation header for --splitpart so that the left and right spans overflow (thanks, Axel!).
• Bug in --notoclabels: labels such as "Figure" should be omitted in the TOC, but not in captions (thanks again, Axel!).
• Bug in --splitpart: empty navigation links caused the header to look unbalanced, fixed now with a non-breaking space. Also, up link in the main page used to point to itself; now it's an empty link (more thanks, Axel!).
• Support for \limits and \nolimits: control if the last symbol should show limits above or below the symbol or not.
• Bug in \vspace: add the vertical space after the command, not before; or at least try to.
• Bug in \raisebox: parse and display the contents as text mode.
• Wish list: do not number captions in code listings.
• Do not install as a module (to run as python -m elyxer) but only as a script (to run as elyxer.py).

What is new in version 1.1.1:

• Wish list: understand \url{} in BibTeX files.
• Wish list: parse math formulas in BibTeX files.
• Improved support for dotless i and j as \imath and \jmath: i, ȷ.
• Solved bug when parsing a quoted string inside a BibTeX file containing a comma.
• Added math environments equation* and matrix.
• Do not break inline formulas at whitespace (thanks, Jose Ramon!).
• Break up the CSS into pieces, and generate an independent math.css for use within math2html.py.
• Ignore hyphens in option names, so e.g. --split-part is equivalent to --splitpart.
• Changed --forceformat to --imageformat (kept the old option for backwards compatibility).
• Wish list: added --imageformat "copy" to just copy images instead of converting them.
• Wish list: added option --embedcss "file.css" to embed the CSS styles in file.css into the resulting HTML.
• Wish list: more than one --css options can be added to use several CSS files.
• Wish list: display sub- and superscript aligned vertically (as in integrals).

What is new in version 1.1.0:

• Wish list: understand \setcounter in the preamble to set the number of the first Chapter or Section.
• Generate a new math2html.py file with an API to convert raw LaTeX code to HTML, and a command line utility.
• Wish list: new option --notoclabels to omit part labels in the TOC.
• Wish list: make "show changes in the output" work for change tracking.
• Solve an existing issue with Description and List layouts: correct splitting of first words when intermixing styles.
• Show decorations using Unicode combining characters, whenever possible.
• Support for \dddot: o⃛ (with combining character) and \widehat: ^abc (with character on top).
• Wish list: add several options for footnote generation (align markers instead of using superscript, place markers at the bottom of the page, use symbols for markers...). Also added a generic --footnotes option to aggregate them all.
• Wish list: use ps:use-cropbox=true in ImageMagick for PostScript and EPS images.
• Support for dotless i and j: i, ȷ.

What is new in version 1.0.4:

• Solved bug #31342: detect appendices as they appear instead of looking at the containing layout.
• Also reported in bug #31342: set part name to "Appendix A-Z" in the TOC for appendices, instead of showing them as regular chapters or sections.
• Also reported in bug #31342: number parts and books using roman numerals, as in "Part I" or "Book IV".
• Fixed bug due to wrapped float placement not being mandatory anymore, despite what EmbeddedObjects.lyx says (thanks, Hans!).
• Solved bug #31351: do not number (or add to the TOC) any document parts inside comments.
• Also in bug #31351: the bibliography should be added to the TOC if so configured (and not inside a comment), and split into its own page with --splitpart.
• Also in bug #31351: show the bibliography in regular size, not smaller than the main text as before.
• Changed header from "Bibliography" to "References" for document classes other than book and report.
• Solved bug #31414: bootstrap creation of conf/config.py.
• Also in bug #31414: remodeled unit tests to try out Python 2.4 only if present, and to remove test files from previous runs.
• Show the "Abstract" header only for the first Abstract layout (thanks, Yaron!).
• Do not separate consecutive Abstract paragraphs, and display the abstract in slightly smaller font size.
• Solved bug #31345: ignore preamble and comments in BibTeX files. Use string definitions (@string) in other entries.
• Also in bug #31345: avoid endless loops for undesired characters in BibTeX entries.

What is new in version 0.4.3:

• Many BibTeX improvements: new style abbrvnat, conditional formatting, look up types in lowercase, understand "--" as dash.
• Added options for mathematical equations: --jsmath to use jsMath and --mathjax to use MathJax.
• Added command help to loremipsumize.py so it can be used outside of eLyXer.
• Include internationalization files in .zip file.
• Solved bug in table parsing: separate different plain layouts.
• eLyXer compressed files now contain a single directory called elyxer-$VERSION, Added italicized uppercase Greek letters: ΓΩ. De-italicized regular uppercase Greek letters: ΓΩ.

What is new in version 0.4.1:

• Select the translation based on document language.
• Added em-dash - such as in this sentence, ■, \textup.
• Added option --converter inkscape to use Inkscape as SVG converter.
• Solved bug when numbering unordered unique parts such as Part* (thanks, Geremy!).
• Show error instead of crashing when included document does not exist.
• Support for all box styles. In CSS: switched to outline-style instead of border for boxes.
• Support for vertical space insets.
• Support for references inside paragraphs and formatted references.
• Listings are now converted using <pre> tags, instead of <code>. They are also justified left.
• Solved bug that prevented numbered listings to appear numbered (thanks, Sam!).
• Support for generic Flex insets, incuding Flex CharStyle:MenuItem.
• All   entities are now generated as the Unicode U+00A0 character.
• New option --iso885915 to generate a document with ISO-8859-15 encoding.
• Support for Sam Liddicott's Newfangle module for literate programming.
• Updated the developer guide for potential contributors; added link from the main page.
• Support for \underbrace and \overbrace.

Requirements:

• Python 2.3.4 or higher