>>Other entries? > > The "Export as ZIP" feature. I'll try to come up with a prototype asap. > > Vincent
Is this the final consensus of the embedding/zip/folder/whatever feature of lyx? I have been forced to use MS Word more and more because of increased collaboration activities. It becomes clear to me that lyx/latex is still too complex for most people and is not suitable for collaboration. For example, 1. Figures are not part of a document which makes a lyx document difficult to 'maintain'. This means extra work to keep track of external files (cannot compile if a file is missing), difficulty in sharing with others (zip to email?). This also means that you can not safely view/edit/compile/save a lyx file from an email attachment which we do everyday to any other documents. Of course, if you have a zip file, one has to save, unzip and open, not mentioning that some mail clients (such as gmail) does not allow send/receive zip files for security reasons. 2. There is no guarantee that a lyx file can compile on another machine. I can immediately think of reasons such as missing external file, incomplete local latex installation (missing a style file), and use of absolute path in file inclusion. This is less important because my collaborators do not have to compile the document. Being away from the lyx community for quite some time, I am not sure if any of these problems is being addressed, but an 'export as zip' feature is certainly not enough. If I am going to re-design an embedding feature now (very unlikely :-), I would make self-contentment and portability the top priorities and I hope that any new lyx format would try to accommodate these. Cheers, Bo
