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On 09/03/12 10:03, Alex Fernandez wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Rob Oakes <lyx-de...@oak-tree.us> wrote:
>> I'm sympathetic to this point. I understand that having a way to go from one 
>> to the other is
>> important. I've deliberately avoided creating an export to Word option, 
>> though, because it
>> would essentially require that I recode large portions of LyX in Python. I'm 
>> resistant to
>> doing that because it's a a lot of extra code to maintain. There are already 
>> two
>> implementations of LyX document parsing libraries: eLyXer and that found in 
>> LyX itself.
>> Adding a third and trying to keep it in some sort of synchronization would 
>> be a huge pain.
>> I'm looking into using eLyXer for Word conversion from LyX, but that is 
>> lesser priority than
>> making Word import work correctly. (At least at the moment.) If there is 
>> someone (maybe Alex
>> or another eLyXer dev) who would be interest in collaborating and handling 
>> the export part,
>> I'd be happy to coordinate with them so that we're able to round-trip.
> 
> That would be great. Unfortunately eLyXer is pretty much a solo project at 
> the moment, and I
> don't have the time (or even the inclination) to do the job. But it might be 
> a great project to
> have someone else started on the eLyXer codebase, and I would provide all the 
> assistance needed
> to learn their way around. Interested parties are encouraged to contact me if 
> you feel that you
> might want to tackle this project, always with Rob's coordination.

An option for the Google summer of code?

> 
> Alex.


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