[Vimoutliner] Reminder of otl2lyx.awk

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

Just a reminder for those of you using both VimOutliner and LyX that you can 
convert a tab indented outline with colon+space defined body text with 
otl2lyx.awk, available here:

http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/Otl2lyx

First you fill out the level to environment table file so that the program 
correctly converts between indent levels and LyX environments, and then you 
run it like this:

otl2lyx.awk level2environmentfile outlinefile

The resulting LyX content comes out stdout and can be redirected to a file. 
Then you simply build an empty LyX doc in the desired document class, and 
using an editor put in the LyX content from otl2lyx.awk.

otl2lyx.awk has been tested and works for LyX 1.4.x. I hear 1.5.x has a 
different format, so obviously otl2lyx.awk must be changed to output the 
1.5.x type LyX, or maybe the LyX project offers a converter. Either way it's 
not rocket science.

Modern LyX offers an "outline mode" similar to MS Word. IMHO that's the single 
greatest feature advance since character styles. However, I still use 
VimOutliner to create the initial outline, because VimOutliner is so 
amazingly fast for a touch typist. It's nice to know that once I've converted 
to LyX, I can continue to handle my document as an outline within LyX.

Thanks

SteveT

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