Re: File format debate (was Re: LyX3: The Asger-Alejandro Debate

[Alejandro Aguilar Sierra]

On Fri, 23 Oct 1998, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

> If we plan to switch to a tree format in terms of sections structure,
> we should have latex like

That's precisely what I want to avoid, a strong dependency between the
internal structure and a file format. Personally I think that in a future
LyX should be able to support several structured document languages (just
someone have to write the import/export filters), like currently LaTeX
and DocBook. 
 
> \begin{section}
> 
> \begin{subsection}
> 
> \end{subsection}
> 
> \end{section}
>
> This is not the case, so that LaTeX cannot hold the nested format we
> need. DocBook could, maybe. 

Wrong. In LaTeX that structure is implicit.

        \section{...}
        ...     
        \subsection{...}
        ...
        \subsection{...}
        ...

cold be seen as

        \begin{section}{...}
        ...
        \begin{subsection}{...}
        ...
        \end{subsection}
        \begin{subsection}{...}
        ...

greets,

Alejandro