Just my two cents: Scientific Word was used to come with a utility called Document Manager. It was able to pack everything in a .msg file. The utility has a GUI that gives you options for choosing the elements to include for the packing and other options during unpacking. I think that we were even allowed to distribute it to the collaborators with whom we share files. I do not know if such a solution would be sufficient and enough secure... Also, it worked only for Windows, we would definitely need a cross-platform tool for LyX of course. But, such a tool would definitely be useful.
Regards, Murat 2009/4/13 Niko Schwarz <niko.schw...@googlemail.com>: > 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 >> > -- *** NEW UNIVERSITY, NEW ADDRESS ! *** Prof. Murat Yildizoglu Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille 3) GREQAM (UMR CNRS 6579) Centre de la Vieille Charité 2, rue de la Charité 13236 Marseille cedex 02 Bureau 320 Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 27 (standard) Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 70 (secrétariat) Tel : +33 4 91 14 07 47 (bureau) Fax : +33 4 91 90 02 27 e-mail: murat.yildizo...@univ-cezanne.fr www : http://www.vcharite.univ-mrs.fr/PP/yildi/index.html http://www.twitter.com/yildizoglu ______________________________________________
