> > > Sorry, but HTML has (or can be used for) a semantic markup in a quite > > comparable way. So, keeping sections, links, emphasized text, quotes, > > ... as an option would be an enhancement. > > What we could do is implement some extended paste option that runs a > converter > (HTML->LaTeX->LyX in that case). In the same vein, LyX could import LaTeX > snippets on the fly. > > But this should not _replace_ the current paste functionality, but rather > complement it. > > I agree, this could be the way to go. There could be 'paste plain' and 'paste formatted' options. I think this is harder than it seems. Very few notetakers do this. An zero do this consistently. On linux, none.
I use lyx for journal articles, and notetaking. On linux, it offers a better notetaking solution than any other tool (before I was using keepnote). This is telling: a tool that was not intended as a notetaker beats all the specialized ones. On win, onenote does everything I need, but I wanted to not have vendor lock-in and a plain text format. So lyx does this for me. This is why pasting snippets from the web is important. And outputting html trough the clipboard (something that we can sorta do with lyxblogger, but it misses images) is damn important for me too. One big disadvantage of using lyx is that it's hard to collaborate. Even though the 'track changes' option is superior to anything plain latex can offer, I still get comments on pdf edits... or worse, handwritten notes and scanned as pdf again. this sets me back dozens of hours. I've never been able to convince anyone to use lyx. Word users, even when show were to click to track changes and insert notes, still edit the pdf. And you do have to muck around with styles, layouts etc. You need to know some latex. Never converted anyone. For latex users, I convert to latex to get their comments. This has the nasty property that the latest version, with all corrections, is latex, not lyx. All in all, I'm torn. I'm not sure I can ever circunvent the disadvantages, and the advantages are not that great. Even though I'm a linux person, I admit that using office well can get you close to what you want in terms of writing structured docs. I just don't like the vendor lock-in... or having to run windows to write papers :) > Jürgen >
