On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 19:41:00 +0000 (UTC) Anders Host-Madsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perhaps beating a dead horse, but I really wish there would be a LyX > for iPad. Perhaps this is why LyX becomes less relevant every year. Here, in 2018, LyX *still* cannot produce an semantically reasonable ePub, and even the semantically unreasonable ePubs require tons of human intervention. LyX can't produce docs easily readable on iPads and other portable devices because no ePub (and thus no Kindle). A decade ago it was decided to make the (then) easily parsable LyX native format into XML, but the transition stopped halfway, so it's unparseable by XML parsers, and yet it's miserable to parse with a Python program. And all this while, where's the priority? LyX for Retina displays. LyX for iPad (like anyone is capable of pounding out 2K words per day with an iPad). All sorts of lilly-gilding, but LyX still can't do a reasonable job of exporting the format used by portable devices, and LyX' native format is still a jumble unparsable by an XML parser. I have nothing against Apple afficianados getting their every dream, but if there's not the programmer-power to do everything, then for gosh sakes, first make LyX native format truly XML and produce a 1 click ePub converter that creates **semantic** ePubs. SteveT
