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Tools

Tools and scripts that can be used with LyX

You can add your scripts that can be useful to users of LyX in this group.

Adding a new script

When you add a script to this group, at least edit Tools.PageList and add a one-line-description, with a link to the script. For more detailed instructions, see AddingScript.

Scripts (included from Tools.PageList)

• homepage
• Instructions in how to add a script to this group
• Scripts and Programs:
  • Lyx bindings: Script for listing current keyboard shortcuts (bindings) from .bind-files
  • LyX-GrammarChecker: Script that provides Grammar Checking support within LyX.
    • LyX-GC-MakeindexWrapper: Wrapper to Improve Formatting of Index (an add-on to LyX-GrammarChecker)
  • PyClient: Python interface to the LyXServer
  • LatexToLyx:
  • MifToLyx: See here: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~pablo/mif2lyx/
  • LyX2OpenOffice: There are 3 main methods of converting LyX documents to Open Document Format (the format used by OpenOffice): By python script, bash script, and by a converter installed in LyX. More detailed information about both methods follows.
  • SVG Files and Inkscape: Directly include SVG-Images in LyX.
  • Otl2lyx: Outline to LyX (otl2lyx.awk) converts a tabbed outline almost into a .lyx-file.
  • MetafileToEPSConverter: Metafile to EPS Converter

Tools

You might also want to check out the scripts that developers use, i.e. see DevelTools.