[Vimoutliner] otl2lyx.pl - Lost spaces

[Steve Litt]

On Friday 23 February 2007 06:21, Grahame Blackwood wrote:
> Hi
>
> Following Steve's syntax I can now translate otl files to lyx. However,
> when opening the lyx file, I find that there is a space lost between two
> words every 70+ characters or so.
>
> It does not seem to be exactly the same character count between the lost
> spaces when looking at normal text, but if I test with a repeating sequence
> of numbers such as 1 3 5 7 9 1 3 5 7 9  etc, then a space is lost at every
> 70th character.
>
> Any ideas where to look to make a correction?
>
> As far as I can tell, vim and otl2lyx are set to use 78 characters/line.
>
> Cheers
>
> G

That's where I would look first. Do this with a tiny outline/lyx file, and put 
ENDOFLINE at the end of every line. See if *that's* where the problem is.

By the way, as far as I remember, I never production tested otl2lyx's body 
text facility, so I'm not surprised it doesn't work exactly right.

Also, IIRC you discovered that LyX now uses end tags. Maybe it needs an end 
tag on body text also. If so, you'd need to set up the Walker object with an 
Exit callback as well as an Entry one. BeWare: there's a config somewhere to 
set Exit to mean *only on exit* and another to mean on exit or on leaf nodes, 
or something like that.

If necessary, I can get involved in about 2 weeks, but not right now :-)

SteveT


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