figure elyxer.png eLyXer

elixir, n: a substance believed to cure all ills.
eLyXer (pronounced elixir) is a LyX to HTML converter. While there are a ton of such projects all over the web, eLyXer has a clear focus on flexibility and elegant output.
LyX is a wonderful text editor which produces beautiful PDF files. Internally it exports documents to LaTeX, and from there to PDF. Sadly there is not an equivalent “export to HTML” option… Until now! With eLyXer you can convert your master’s thesis, learned article, fascinating novel or love letter to a web page that you can then publish on the web.
eLyXer (including this page and all accompanying materials) is licensed under the GPL version 3 or, at your option, any later version. See the LICENSE file for details.

Usage

eLyXer is a command line tool written in Python. Basic usage is as simple as writing at the command line prompt:
$ elyxer document.lyx page.html
or, on Windows:
> Python.exe elyxer document.lyx page.html
where document.lyx is your LyX document, and page.html is the resulting HTML page. Write
$ elyxer ‐‐help
or see the user guide for details.

Download

You can download the latest version from the project’s download area.

Documentation

eLyxer comes with a user guide and a developer guide.

Changelog

Latest version is 0.7, created on 20090316.

Acknowledgments

This little project is my little contribution back to the wonderful LyX community, for all these years of fruitful use.
Thanks to Stevan White for encouraging me to publish the tool; to Christian Ridderström for helping me out right at the start; to Abdelrazak Younes, Pavel Sanda, Günther Milde, Olivier Ripoll, José Matos, Iain Mac Donald, Uwe Stöhr, Ignacio García for their interesting suggestions; to Nikos Alexandris, Joachim Kreimer-de Fries (Osnabryg), Richard Talley, Wolfgang Keller, Murray Eisenberg, Robert Orr for their early testing. A silent “thank you” goes to all those who downloaded the tool and silently tested it to their satisfaction (or were not bugged enough to write about it). And finally thanks to all those who have helped and yet I am now forgetting about them, for not hating me for it.