I've been starting to get a few of the people I work with to convert to LyX and I've been noticing that when sending documents between authors it would be convenient to not always be ZIPping up all the dependencies. Is there any chance that patches to allow embedding files in LyX documents would get accepted into LyX mainline? My thought would be to have something like the following before the actual document:
\begin_resources \begin_file "MyLayout.layout" <Last Modification Time> <File Size> <Base64 Encoded Layout File> \end_file \begin_file "figures/MyFigure.pdf" <Last Modification Time> <File Size> <Base64 Encoded Figure File> \end_file \end_resources The idea would be that these files would only be used if the local files did not exist. Additionally, these files would get updated automatically if the local file was ever modified and then document was re-opened. I believe that this kind of resource inclusion would greatly improve the ability to share LyX documents, so if this proposal sounds acceptable then I would be happy to put in the work to make it happen. Erich Hoover ehoo...@mines.edu
