[Vimoutliner] otl2lyx.awk

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

Long ago I made an otl2lyx.pl, but with the upgraded native LyX file format, 
it no longer worked. After viewing my Perl code, I opted to rewrite in awk 
(gawk, to be specific).

This program converts a tab indented outline (the native format of 
VimOutliner, http://www.vimoutliner.org) into LyX code. It DOES NOT create 
the document header or the \begin_body or \end_body or \end_document. I do 
that by creating an almost blank LyX document, with LyX, and then pasting in 
the results into the body of the almost blank LyX document.

This program requires a file representing the table between levels and 
LyX/LaTeX environments. Mine, for a book, looks like this:

1: Chapter       
2: Section             
3: Subsection    
4: Subsubsection 
5: Paragraph     
6: Subparagraph  
7: Garbage7       
bodytext: Standard

I called the preceding file envs.table. Then I run the program like this:

otl2lyx.awk    envs.table   mybook.otl  > junk.lyx
gvim   junk.lyx   mybook.lyx

It's undergone very little testing, and I'm sure you'll find glitches, but it 
did convert my outline into a book skelleton, and worked, including the body 
text, which has each line starting with a colon.

The otl2lyx.awk code, which is licensed GPL version 2, is attached to this 
email. Enjoy!

SteveT
 
Steve Litt
Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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