On Wednesday 23 July 2008 11:21, José Matos wrote: > > There may be things wrong with awking, seding and perling data into > > submission, but the age of these tools is not one of them. > > If you add there the coreutils, like tail, cut, paste, merge and so on we > can do things that spreadsheet programs can only dream of like processing > Gigs of data with thousands of lines and columns. :-)
:-) :-) :-) Check this out: http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/lpm/200801/200801.htm http://www.troubleshooters.cxm/lpm/200802/200802.htm But seriously -- it's obvious that for the LyX application itself, XML is by far the best way to go, and I would never suggest rewriting LyX in awk :-). My interest is in quick writes/tweaks of LyX native format files in order to do things that LyX isn't equipped to do, like my VimOutliner to LyX script. STeveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US
