On Feb 6, 2014, at 10:35 AM, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The first project in our wiki page for GSOC 2014: > > http://wiki.lyx.org/GSoC/GSoCProjectIdeasFor2014 > > is, at the same time, the most ambitious and the least well-defined (possibly > because the former implies the latter). > > It is not clear to me if this a coding project or if it defines the outline > of a preliminary non-coding feasibility study that would, at most, produce a > document describing the minimal-lyx and minimal-docx feature sets (plus, > possibly, a minimal-lyx-layout and a minimal-doc-template). > > Any thought on how to make it more focused? > > Perhaps we could define the goals as: > > 1. Define a minimal-lyx feature set (I.e. the supported LyX/LaTeX features) > 2. Write a corresponding lyx-layout > 3. Define a minimal-doc feature set (Word/ODF features corresponding to (1) > 4, Write a Word/OO template (the set of styles corresponding to 2) > 5. Provide an automated path from 1 to 4 and back using glue-code and > existing internal and external tools (e.g.: LyX export functions to > XHTML/EPub, eLyxer, pandoc, writer2latex, etc). > > I am not sure points 1-5 above capture the existing description, partly > because I am not sure about what is meant by "develop a framework". Perhaps > my summary caputeres the subgoal only? > > Stefano One can hope (right?) that since a commonality between LyX and docx is math that this would be included on the feature set(s). On OS X, the new versions of Word have a built-in math typesetting capability (and thus no longer depends on MathType). Presumably this is allowed by the docx format and presumably this is also an aspect of Windows Word. Autonumbering would also be hoped for. Jerry > > > -- > __________________________________________________ > 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
