On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Alex Vergara Gil <[email protected]> wrote: > The question is why to have a .lyx format in plain text? Isn't xml a better > one? I know plain text is easy to edit but we really doesn't work with it > since LyX do this for us. The advantages would be obvious: > Insertion/Deletion of metadata, a better way of handling everything, etc. > This is my point of view, so I might be wrong but I doesn't feel like that.
There's a wiki where this is discussed. I agree, XML is better, not because XML is great, but because of tools like XSLT. If there was a loss-free, bi-directional conversion between LyX and some XML schema (XHTML, say), then that'd be good enough for now. There is an export to XHTML function, but I don't think there's an import from XHTML.... Nico --
