On 12 June 2013 20:45, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote:

> stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote:
> >
> >> stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Ray Rashif <schivmeis...@gmail.com> writes:
> >> >>
> >> >> > On 12 June 2013 03:57, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Ray Rashif <
> schivmeis...@gmail.com
> >> >> >wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>> On 11 June 2013 14:15, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote:
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> I wanted to survey the LyX and LaTeX community for some opinions
> on
> >> >> this,
> >> >> >>> perhaps to get an idea as to the demand for some research into
> this
> >> >> area.
> >> >> >>> The project would do some empirical comparisons of the
> workarounds
> >> and
> >> >> >>> propose at most two or three solutions that work (integration
> with
> >> >> Pandoc,
> >> >> >>> or converintg directly to a simpler and well-supported language).
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>> The emphasis would be on retaining as much semantic meaning as
> >> >> possible,
> >> >> >>> across different levels of complexity, starting from the very
> >> basic. I
> >> >> am
> >> >> >>> not aware of any similar academic or non-academic effort, but
> this
> >> >> could
> >> >> >>> also be a long blog post.
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> HI Ray,
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I am not sure about what you're asking, exactly? Perhaps a survey
> of
> >> the
> >> >> >> different lyx-doc(x) use cases that current lyx users care most
> >> about?
> >> >> Or
> >> >> >> rather a definition of the simplest yet still useful use case we
> can
> >> >> >> imagine? If the former, I would suggest starting a page on our
> wiki,
> >> >> >> perhaps as a possible GSoC 2014 project, as a repository of useful
> >> cases
> >> >>
> >> >> I think to start a wiki page to outline a possible GSoC 2014 project
> >> >> would be a good idea.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> > I created a page here:
> http://wiki.lyx.org/GSoC/GSoCProjectIdeasFor2014
> >> > The first item on the page is "Round trip conversion between LyX and
> >> .docx
> >> > formats <http://wiki.lyx.org/GSoC/GSoCProjectIdeasFor2014#toc1>"
> >> > I entered a minimal description of what I take is both Rainer's and
> Ray's
> >> > wishes.
> >> > Could you guys expand it?
> >>
> >> Thanks Stefano.
> >>
> >> just added my ideas and my understanding[1]. Please add your ideas and
> >> suggestions.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Thanks Rainer. I added a couple of desired items to your list.
>
> To collate the discussion, I added a ticket:
>
> http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8745
>
> to record discussions there.
>
> Please feel free to close the ticket if this is an wrong usage of a
> ticket.


Thanks guys, that's a good start. At first I wasn't sure how relevant this
would be for LyX or a summer program like GSoC, but with what you guys have
written the idea can be adapted and defined well. I'll add on if I see
anything else missing.


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