to help sharing files, dropbox is excellent. On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Etienne lepercq <e.gu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am new to LyX, but not as new to LaTeX : I used Kile for quiet a few time > now. > I would like to use LyX to work with several people on an article. As LyX > is > much more user-friendly than Kile, a pure LaTeX editor, I convinced my > collaborators to give a try to LyX. > > There is te least one thing in LyX (and LaTeX) that is not easy to handle, > sharing a whole document to make it modifiable by others : one have to > build > an archive with all figures and latex source, collaborators have to untar > it, open LyX, read/modify/etc... and then... rebuild archive, send the > archive, etc... > > This is counter-productive, not easy to use, it is a pain. One simple > solution I see for this is to give the ability to LyX to open, say .tar > archives, with a specific tree inside (.yx sources, then > figures/allFigures.Whatever or something). Such archive could be called > .lyxZ files ;-) > > Does such feature exist already ? I searched over FAQ/Documentation/Asked > on > #LyX but did not find anything more than : two implementations were made > once, but as nobody could say which was the best... none were released !! > > This is not _that_ complex to implement, but is there a way to have such > feature now, or is there a way to at least release one relatively-good > implementation ? > > Thanks a lot. > > Etienne Lepercq > -- > Sincerily >
