On 11/5/18 4:55 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote:
I might well just be naive but I'm not getting this line of criticism at all. LyX has always been a frontend to LaTeX, right? That's it's /raison d'etre./ It's still the only game in town to that end, and it's fabulous at it. LaTeX creates PDFs. So you use LyX to create PDFs. Seems to me if you're using LyX with the intention of getting an ePub or mobi doc, you're expecting it to do something it wasn't — by its nature — designed for. You want ePub or mobi, use something else.
An application of the sort that Mr Litt wants would be a Very Good Thing. But it would be far better to create such an application by starting fresh than by utterly recoding LyX. And Mr Litt's claim that LyX is becoming ever less relevant is badly constructed and simply false.
As I suggested elsewhere, it's somewhat as if someone argued that LyX should become a first-person shooter game.
BTW, LaTeX predates .PDFs; and I primarily use LyX to create .tex files, for publishers who then use those files to create files for publication, perhaps .PDFs, but not with LyX.
