On Wednesday 15 December 2010 15:32:43 Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > On 15/12/2010 18:59, Steve Litt wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:54:01 Michael Joyner wrote: [clip] > >> One of our initial goals was to try and maintain an easy to edit file > >> format should the internal customers need to "tweak" any of the > >> outputs. > >> > >> The ones who would be doing the editing are less than technically > >> inclined. > >> > >> -Mike > > > > Mike, > > > > I REALLY appreciate your making easy to edit file format as a goal. I'd > > estimate that half my full-length LyX projects involve editing either > > with Vim or with a Perl script. Most of my books start as a VimOutliner > > outline, which then is converted by an awk script to LyX native format so > > that I can handle my book's structure and even some text in VimOutliner, > > and when the structure's correct, move it into LyX. All these things > > require an easy to edit LyX native file format. > > Could be wrong but I think that Mike was talking about easy to edit > _within_ LyX, nothing to do with the lyx file fomat :-) > Still that your point about easy to edit file format is of course a > priority for LyX developers, no change about that.
Well then I guess I have to thank all of you developers, not just Mike. And while I'm at it, thanks for all the other wonderful stuff about LyX, especially its stability, minimal surprises, ease of use and ESPECIALLY character styles. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
