On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Richard Heck <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/17/2012 11:45 AM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: >>> There still are long-term plans to convert the native LyX format to XML. >>> But it turns out to be more work than one might expect. >>> >>> rh >> >> Really nice to hear about this, is there any schedule??? >> > No, we've been discussing it for years, but no-one has ever been > sufficiently motivated actually to do it. As I said, it's harder than it > sounds.
I've filed some bugs last night about things that make it hard... :) Meanwhile, the script I'm working on will effectively get us there, though in a hackish way: externally, rather than by changing the C++ code. But I think that's OK. We can make a lot of progress by first making sure there's a faithful XML representation of .lyx, as that will allow all sorts of progress in terms of import/export conversions, and having such an XML format to play with may help the team to think more about how to structure the C++ code. Nico --
