[Vimoutliner] otl2lyx.pl no longer sulky!

[Grahame Blackwood]

Steve

Thanks very much for such a quick reply especially when you are so busy. Don't 
read or take any notice of the following until things quieten down, except to 
know your syntax works.

I tried your syntax and the first thing that happened was an error message:

`Mulitple indent at line 1, "pcc 5th March 07", terminating'

I inserted a blank line at the top of the otl file and that stopped the error 
occuring again and the syntax you sent me worked and produced an output file 
`tmp.lyx' to include in `myfile.lyx'.

However, when I read `tmp.lyx' into `myfile.lyx' between the top and bottom 
lines and then opened LyX to have a look at the result, all that was 
displayed was `top line' and `bottom line', with nothing in between. This was 
even though `myfile.lyx' now contained all the lines from `vo_myfile.otl'.

I then noticed that at the start of each environment mark up, the `tmp.lyx' 
produced by otl2lyx.pl reads, for instance with Standard environment:

	/layout Standard

while the equivalent produced by LyX for `top line' is:

	/begin_layout Standard

Similarly at the end of an environment, LyX inserts a closing: 

	/end_layout 

but there is no closing of the environment in the output from otl2lyx.pl 
in`tmp.lyx'.

When I included `/begin_layout Standard' and `/end_layout' in place of the 
phrase produced by otl2lyx.pl, LyX then displayed the missing text.

The version of LyX I am using is 1.4.2. and I presume that LyX has moved on 
and the output of otl2lyx.pl is not quite what the current version of LyX is 
expecting. 

I had a look at otl2.lyx.pl and changed `\layout' in line 342 of otl2lyx.pl to 
`\begin_layout' and on running the process again it all worked like a charm. 

I only have to make the `o2l.conf' match the type of document I am using 
(mainly article) and we have success. That's brilliant!

You asked where I saw the syntax, but I don't think the syntax was given in 
the article where I found otl2lyx.pl. This was in:

www.troubleshooters.com/projects/vimoutliner/index.htm with a date of 
1/4/2005. Hope this helps.

Thanks again for your quick reply, and for VimOutliner, because I am enjoying 
using it and it will, I am sure, make me more productive and improve the 
quality of my writing.

Cheers

G