Cyrille Artho wrote: > The issue is that the target file will be edited before it's re-imported > (otherwise there is no point in exporting the data to being with). This > can make a clean re-import very challenging. > > For example: > > "Good": lyx -> latex: Store extra data as special LaTeX comments.
This is very difficult to get right (see http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6059) > "Bad": lyx -> something rather alien (.docx or such): If you need to > store information in other files, how are the parts going to be > reconstituted after the .docx file has been changed? I don't believe that docx would be more difficult than .tex here. I bet that it is possible to insert some custom (nonprinting) marks, where the metadata file could refer to. > Regardless of the number of files, the problem is much harder than just > a reversible mapping. It has to survive a certain amount of editing. The > same edits in the original and in the exported version should map to the > same result after re-importing: > > file - > lyx2target -> target > > | | > | edit | edit > V V > > file' <- target2lyx <- target' > > > At least for some editing, this should be supported. I don't think it is > necessary to be perfect here, so it can probably be achieved for many > useful practical cases, but I also think it's harder than just > converting back and forth. This is indeed a very challenging part of the task. Georg
