Steve Litt wrote: > I seem to remember that an upcoming LyX version will have a > different native format. What will that native format be? Will it > still be a front end to LaTeX, or will it go in a different > direction?
LyX will always be a frontend to LaTeX. However, now and in the future, it's also a frontend to DocBook, sgmlbook, ... The LyX file format is "sort of LaTeX" with "extra bits". It's a mess, albeit one that we can parse more reliably now than in the past. In the future we'd like to use XML for the file format so that we can throw away large chunks of homemade code and use something off the shelf. That won't impact LyX's ability to be a frontend to LaTeX however. > Also, when will we have character styles? LyX 1.4 has character styles. See http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX14 prerelease 2 of LyX 1.4 has recently been announced. However, it's still got lots of little bugs. Nonetheless we'd all like LyX 1.4 out ASAP. Angus
