Although there are a lot of things I like about LyX (and in fact, I'm planning to use it for my thesis), there is one feature I would really like: self-contained documents.
What I mean by that is that as things stand now, a document's final appearance depends on the various LaTeX packages installed and the default LyX layout files. So there is no gurantee that a document will look the same if I mail it to someone, or, more worringly, if I look at the document a decade later (or even a few years later). The LaTeX 'snapshot' package can be used in conjunction with some other scripts to get all the LaTeX dependencies. Similar scripts could be written to determine LyX layout file dependencies. But doing is this way is inconvenient. It would be great if LyX was able to encapsulate all the dependencies in a single file. I realise this is probably a fairly complex undertaking... I was just wondering if it was on the TODO list at all. To summarize: it would be great if LyX could gurantee that the documents would look the same years or decades later. Thanks for a great piece of software, -param
