On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote:
> Ray Rashif <schivmeis...@gmail.com> writes: > > > On 12 June 2013 03:57, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > >> > >> > >> > >> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Ray Rashif <schivmeis...@gmail.com > >wrote: > >> > >>> On 11 June 2013 14:15, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote: > >>> > >>> I wanted to survey the LyX and LaTeX community for some opinions on > this, > >>> perhaps to get an idea as to the demand for some research into this > area. > >>> The project would do some empirical comparisons of the workarounds and > >>> propose at most two or three solutions that work (integration with > Pandoc, > >>> or converintg directly to a simpler and well-supported language). > >>> > >>> The emphasis would be on retaining as much semantic meaning as > possible, > >>> across different levels of complexity, starting from the very basic. I > am > >>> not aware of any similar academic or non-academic effort, but this > could > >>> also be a long blog post. > >>> > >>> > >> > >> HI Ray, > >> > >> I am not sure about what you're asking, exactly? Perhaps a survey of the > >> different lyx-doc(x) use cases that current lyx users care most about? > Or > >> rather a definition of the simplest yet still useful use case we can > >> imagine? If the former, I would suggest starting a page on our wiki, > >> perhaps as a possible GSoC 2014 project, as a repository of useful cases > > I think to start a wiki page to outline a possible GSoC 2014 project > would be a good idea. > > I created a page here: http://wiki.lyx.org/GSoC/GSoCProjectIdeasFor2014 The first item on the page is "Round trip conversion between LyX and .docx formats <http://wiki.lyx.org/GSoC/GSoCProjectIdeasFor2014#toc1>" I entered a minimal description of what I take is both Rainer's and Ray's wishes. Could you guys expand it? Cheers, Stefano -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
