On 18/12/12 00:01, Nico Williams wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Alex Vergara Gil <a...@cphr.edu.cu> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm not so sure. If someone were to write a converter that mapped LyX's >>>> XML onto ODT's, >>>> or whatever, then yes. But that would still need doing. >>> >>> >>> Yes, of course. However, I think it should be easier to write such XSLs to >>> map from a >>> straightforward LyX XML schema than from LyXHTML output. The latter >>> depends too much on >>> the document class and has issues, while the former should preserve >>> everything about the >>> original .lyx as much as possible. >>> >>> Nico -- >>> >> And it would be easier for the final user the fact that all converters can >> operate >> automatically inside the LyX, instead of calling them, so you would see that >> copying a MathML >> equation in LOWriter and then pasting in LyX would result in a LyX equation >> where you insert >> them instead of having to convert it to latex using whatever script you have >> and the copy >> paste inside an equation box (is there an easier way right now? I think my >> way is too much >> omplicated), the same for figures (you don't need to save the image and then >> load it from >> LyX, just paste it where you want it) and tables (I think this is a lot more >> complicated >> example, but there is XLST converter). > > Conversion at the File->Import... and File->Export... level would be just a > matter of writing > the necessary XSLs. > > Conversion at the cut-n-paste level is not something I can speak to with > confidence at this > time. I'll note only that if the content being pasted is known to be XML in > some schema then > LyX could invoke an XSL to convert it to .lyx.
This all sounds very exciting and extremely useful for import / export / collaboration, but there is one aspect which I would be missing in an XML file: At the moment, I can open a .lyx file with emacs and do change / replace in the .lyx file, when e.g. I have moved my images around. Or changing anything formating consistently throughout the text - this is much more time consuming in LyX itself. So my question: would this new XML format mean the "good bye" to the plain text format of the .lyx file, or would the XML be a new parallel, fully (and I mean fully!) equivalent and exchangeable format in LyX? I know that an XML is also a text file, but at least the ones I looked into were not nearly as editable as the .lyx plain text? Nevertheless, I think the XML format, keeping the import/export in mind, would be a huge step forward. Cheers, Rainer > > Nico -- >
