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+#!/bin/sh
+# @(#$Id: rcllyx,v 1.1 2007-01-23 07:14:16 dockes Exp $  (C) 2004 J.F.Dockes
+# There may still be code from Estraier in here:
+#================================================================
+# Estraier: a personal full-text search system
+# Copyright (C) 2003-2004 Mikio Hirabayashi
+#================================================================
+#================================================================
+# rcllyx
+# Convert a lyx file to recoll HTML.
+#
+# We use lyx --export. It was suggested to use untex, but it doesn't give 
+# good results on raw lyx (of course, this is not TeX), and exporting to
+# LaTex then using untex doesn't look nice when we can use the native  lyx
+# text export.
+# The character encoding of the exported text is defined by the
+# \inputencoding directive in the lyx file header and, in quite an obscure
+# way, by the \language parameter. We use a heuristic to divine the output
+# text encoding and it is guaranteed not to work in all cases. Trials using
+# an intermediary dvi, pdf or ps file gave worse results. This needs
+# improvement. It doesn't even take into account the fact that the language
+# can change inside the doc (does this change the encoding or not ?). To be
+# frank, this is not entirely my fault, the lyx format is a joke.
+#
+# As there is unfortunately no way to define the output file name, we have
+# to use a temporary directory and link the input file in there.
+
+# set variables
+LANG=C ; export LANG
+LC_ALL=C ; export LC_ALL
+progname="rcllyx"
+
+# show help message
+if test $# -ne 1 -o "$1" = "--help" 
+then
+  printf 'Extract lyx text as basic HTML.\n'
+  printf 'Usage: %s [infile]\n' "$progname"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+infile="$1"
+
+# check the input file existence
+if test ! -f "$infile"
+then
+  printf '%s: %s: no such file\n' "$progname" "$infile"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+iscmd()
+{
+    cmd=$1
+    case $cmd in
+    */*)
+	if test -x $cmd ; then return 0; else return 1; fi ;;
+    *)
+      oldifs=$IFS; IFS=":"; set -- $PATH; IFS=$oldifs
+      for d in $*;do test -x $d/$cmd && return 0;done
+      return 1 ;;
+    esac
+}
+checkcmds()
+{
+    for cmd in $*;do
+      if iscmd $cmd 
+      then 
+        a=1
+      else 
+        echo $cmd not found 1>&2 
+	exit 1
+      fi
+    done
+}
+
+checkcmds lyx iconv
+
+# We need a temporary directory
+if test z"$RECOLL_TMPDIR" != z; then
+   ttdir=$RECOLL_TMPDIR
+elif test z"$TMPDIR" != z ; then
+   ttdir=$TMPDIR
+else
+   ttdir=/tmp
+fi
+
+tmpdir=$ttdir/rcllyx_tmp$$
+mkdir $tmpdir || exit 1
+mkdir $tmpdir/rcllyxtmp || exit 1
+
+cleanup()
+{
+    # Note that we're using a constant part (rcllyxtmp), that hopefully
+    # guarantees that we can't do big mistakes here.
+    rm -rf $tmpdir/rcllyxtmp
+    rmdir $tmpdir
+}
+    
+#trap cleanup EXIT HUP QUIT INT TERM
+
+workdir=$tmpdir/rcllyxtmp
+case "$infile" in
+ */*) ;;
+ *) infile=`pwd`/$infile;;
+esac
+
+binfile=`basename $infile`
+ln -s "$infile" "$workdir/$binfile" || exit 1
+lyxfile=$workdir/$binfile
+textfile=$workdir/`basename $binfile .lyx`.txt
+
+#echo binfile: $binfile;echo lyxfile: $lyxfile ; ls -l $lyxfile; echo textfile: $textfile
+
+# Run lyx --export
+lyx --export text $lyxfile
+
+# Charset and language
+formatline=`egrep '^\\\lyxformat ' $lyxfile`
+if test -n "$formatline" ; then 
+   set $formatline
+   format=$2
+fi
+charsetline=`egrep '^\\\inputencoding ' $lyxfile`
+if test -n "$charsetline" ; then 
+   set $charsetline
+   charset=$2
+fi
+langline=`egrep '^\\\language ' $lyxfile`
+if test -n "$langline" ; then 
+   set $langline
+   lang=$2
+fi
+#echo format: [$format] charset: [$charset] lang [$lang]
+
+if test "$format" -ge 249 ; then
+  charset=utf-8
+else
+  # try to guess the charset from the language: this is in no way guaranteed
+  # to work, the logic has built-in inconsistencies even beyond the numerous
+  # external ones (what if the ukrainian writer prefers koi8-r ?). This is a
+  # joke. 
+  if test -n "$charset" -o "$charset" = default -o "$charset" = auto ; then
+    case "$lang" in
+    american|afrikaans|basque|catalan|danish|dutch|english|faeroese|finnish|french|galician|german|icelandic|irish|italian|norwegian|portuguese|spanish|swedish)
+      charset=iso-8859-1;;
+    czech|german|hungarian|polish|romanian|croatian|slovak|slovene)
+      charset=iso-8859-2;;
+    esperanto|galician|maltese|Turkish) 
+      charset=iso-8859-3;;
+    estonian|latvian|lithuanian) 
+      charset=iso-8859-4;;
+    bulgarian|byelorussian|macedonian|russian|serbian|ukrainian) 
+      charset=iso-8859-5;;
+    arabic) 
+      charset=iso-8859-6;;
+    greek) 
+      charset=iso-8859-7;;
+    hebrew) 
+      charset=iso-8859-8;;
+    #ISO-8859-9 - Latin 5 Same as 8859-1 except for Turkish instead of
+    #Icelandic. ? What is one to do :)
+    #ISO-8859-10 - Latin 6
+    lappish|nordic|eskimo|inuit|sami)
+      charset=iso-8859-10;;
+  albanian|german|english|basque|breton|catalan|danish|spanish|estonian|esthonian|faeroese|faroese|finnish|french|frisian|friesian|scottish|goidelic|irish|gaelic|galician|welsh|greenlandic|inuit|icelandic|italian|latin|dutch|norvegian|portuguese|romansch|romansh|friulian|ladin|swedish)
+      charset=iso-8859-15;;
+    *)
+      charset=iso-8859-1;;
+    esac
+  fi
+fi
+
+if test -n "$charset" ; then
+   inputcmd="iconv -f $charset -t UTF-8 -c -s"
+else
+   inputcmd=cat
+fi
+#echo inputcmd: [$inputcmd]
+
+cat <<EOF
+<html>
+<head>
+    <title>$title</title>
+    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
+</head>
+<body>
+<pre>
+EOF
+
+$inputcmd < $textfile
+
+cat <<EOF
+</pre>
+</body>
+</html>
+EOF