RE: GUI for Lout

[Matej Cepl]

On 5 Jun 00, at 17:31, Tim Churches wrote:

> >===== Original Message From address@hidden =====
> >On Mon, 05 Jun 2000 11:13:43 Tim Churches wrote:
> >> Steven,
> >>
> >> A graphical front-end for Lout in the style of Lyx would be most
> >welcome. A
> >> bonus if it is implemented in Python (go Python!). However, the other
> >missing
> >> part of the Lout jigsaw is conversion from SGML/XML (in particular
> >DocBook for
> >> my purposes) to Lout. The SGML-Tools-x packages don't seem to emit
> >Lout, and I

Actually, there seems to be some movement in our direction in 
docproc (Java XML/XSL processor -- see link on uwe's webpage), 
but I have not working CLI Java, so I cannot confirm it.

For me, much more pressing thing is missing report2html program 
(something simliar to tth or latex2html -- former is better IMHO). I 
do not use many equations and graphs (being a lawyer), but I have 
a lot of footnotes and references (for the same reason).

I guess, that for somebody willing to write Loutish editor something 
like that should be a piece of cake. Wouldn't you like to make some 
training in lout parsing first and write it (actually, I like the idea of 
Python, because it is the only language I can at least read -- not 
write too much, but anyway :-)?

However, as people before me have written -- GUI is very nice idea 
(look not only on LyX or preferably KLyX, but try to check W3C's 
Amaya as well -- it has a potential to be much more than just 
another HTML writer) and I do not want to discourage you from 
that. Even if report2html would be written by somebody else. :-)

                                Have a nice day

                                                        Matej