HTMLyX

HTMLyX is still in early stages of development, and most features available in LyX are currently unsupported.

HTMLyX is a cross-platform LyX to HTML compiler.

Motivation

LyX is an open-source document processor. Usually, it export document as .tex file which are then compiled to .pdf using some installation of TeX. However, the multiple TeX instances of different operating systems make it difficult to compile files on different computers.

Moreover, the .pdf documents generated are not easily viewed on mobile devices with small screens. Attempts have been made to compile both LyX and LaTeX documents into html code, but such attempts are lacking in terms of Right-to-Left support and support of math equations. This project claim to provide adequate support for both.

Usage

usage: python main.py [-h] input_file output_file

Convert .lyx files to .html files.

positional arguments:
  input_file   path to a valid .lyx file
  output_file  where to store the resulting .html file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help   show this help message and exit

What's currently supported

• Standard layout

• Titles and numbered parts only (the numbers are not currently rendered)

• Math insets (inline, display mode and math macros)

• Supported styles: Series (bold) and bar (underline)

TODO:

• Support all default layout types:

  • Standard

  • LyX-Code. note: the separator which LyX adds after the LyX-Code is not currently supported

  • Quotation

  • Quote

  • Verse

  • Verbatim/Verbatim*

  • Part/Part*

  • Section/Section*

  • Subsection/Subsection*

  • Subsubsection/Subsubsection*

  • Paragraph/Paragraph*

  • Subparagraph/Subparagraph*

  • Title

  • Author

  • Date

  • Abstract

  • Address

  • Right Address

  • Labeling

  • Itemize

  • Enumerate

  • Description

• All text formatting:

  • Series

  • Shape

  • Size

  • Color

  • Underlining

  • Strikethrough

• Boxes

• Support ams-article layout types

• Tables

• Images - not fully supported yet but can be inserted and scaled uniformly using scale%.

• Floating figures, algorithms and tables

• Table of contents, table oparenthesis for RTLf algorithms

• Bibliography

• Labels & Cross references

• Hyperlinks

• Reverse parenthesis for RTL languages

Requirements

1. Python 3.8+

2. NodeJS with KaTeX installed.

License

HTMLyX is released under the GNU GPL version 3.0. The license can be found in LICENSE, but if for some reason it wasn't included with the code, you can find it here.