Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-09 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
On 09/03/14 02:55, Pavel Sanda wrote: Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: luckily, we're filling up these weird .lyx files contents using that Believe it or not there are people who are using scripts for batch creation of lyx files for automatized reports and using sed for processing stuff inside it.

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-09 Thread Pavel Sanda
Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: student, and he applied his changes with a plain-text editor, learning-by-example the .lyx syntax, and later he asked me why don't we use for example latex?, and You made my day :D

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-09 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
On 09/03/14 02:55, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: >> luckily, we're filling up these weird .lyx files contents using that > > Believe it or not there are people who are using scripts for batch creation of > lyx files for automatized reports and using sed for processing stuff inside

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-09 Thread Pavel Sanda
Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > student, and he applied his changes with a plain-text editor, > learning-by-example > the .lyx syntax, and later he asked me "why don't we use for example latex?", > and You made my day :D

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-08 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 07/03/2014 03:09, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: ... instead of XML, as discussed so often ... https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV Bad idea for a document, LyX is used to create structured document, not database, we are not going to create a new directory for each new

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Abdelrazak Younes you...@lyx.org wrote: On 07/03/2014 03:09, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: ... instead of XML, as discussed so often ... https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV Bad idea for a document, LyX is used to create structured

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Abdelrazak Younes you...@lyx.org wrote: On 07/03/2014 03:09, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: ... instead of XML, as discussed so often ...

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/08/2014 10:31 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Abdelrazak Younes you...@lyx.org wrote: On 07/03/2014 03:09, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: ... instead of XML, as discussed so often ...

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-08 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 08/03/2014 17:20, Richard Heck wrote: On 03/08/2014 10:31 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Liviu Andronic landronim...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Abdelrazak Younes you...@lyx.org wrote: On 07/03/2014 03:09, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: ...

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-08 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
On 08/03/14 19:44, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: That being said, I *personally* find XML much too verbose and error prone compared to Json if you write it with a plain text editor. luckily, we're filling up these weird .lyx files contents using that convenient editor, what's its name?, was it

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: luckily, we're filling up these weird .lyx files contents using that Believe it or not there are people who are using scripts for batch creation of lyx files for automatized reports and using sed for processing stuff inside it. But sure, one can move to plain latex.

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-08 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 07/03/2014 03:09, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: ... instead of XML, as discussed so often ... https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV Bad idea for a document, LyX is used to create structured document, not database, we are not going to create a new directory for each new

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > On 07/03/2014 03:09, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: >> >> ... instead of XML, as discussed so often ... >> >>https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV > > > Bad idea for a document, LyX is used to create

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-08 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: >> On 07/03/2014 03:09, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: >>> >>> ... instead of XML, as discussed so often ... >>> >>>

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-08 Thread Richard Heck
On 03/08/2014 10:31 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On 07/03/2014 03:09, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: ... instead of XML, as discussed so often ...

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-08 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 08/03/2014 17:20, Richard Heck wrote: On 03/08/2014 10:31 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 10:51 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: On 07/03/2014 03:09, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: ...

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-08 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
On 08/03/14 19:44, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > That being said, I *personally* find XML much too verbose and error > prone compared to Json if you write it with a plain text editor. luckily, we're filling up these weird .lyx files contents using that convenient editor, what's its name?, was it

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > luckily, we're filling up these weird .lyx files contents using that Believe it or not there are people who are using scripts for batch creation of lyx files for automatized reports and using sed for processing stuff inside it. But sure, one can move to plain latex.

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta tomm...@lyx.org wrote: ... instead of XML, as discussed so often ... https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV He makes a strong case for GIT, and against XML. Especially taking into account human

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2014-03-07, Pavel Sanda wrote: Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta tomm...@lyx.org wrote: ... instead of XML, as discussed so often ... https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV He makes a strong case for GIT, and against XML.

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Guenter Milde wrote: If human readability is the goal we should stay with the current format in the first place ;) Not really. All the extra lines for inline constructs make it considerabely more difficult to read as e.g. LaTeX (and in this regard even more difficult to read than XML).

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > > ... instead of XML, as discussed so often ... > > > > https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV > > > He makes a strong case for GIT, and against XML. Especially taking > into

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2014-03-07, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Liviu Andronic wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: >> > ... instead of XML, as discussed so often ... >> > >> > https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV >> > >> He makes a strong case for GIT,

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-07 Thread Pavel Sanda
Guenter Milde wrote: > > If human readability is the goal we should stay with the current format > > in the first place ;) > > Not really. All the extra lines for inline constructs make it > considerabely more difficult to read as e.g. LaTeX (and in this regard > even more difficult to read than

About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-06 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
... instead of XML, as discussed so often ... https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV T.

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-06 Thread stefano franchi
On Mar 6, 2014 8:09 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta tomm...@lyx.org wrote: ... instead of XML, as discussed so often ... https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV T. GSOC 2015? S.

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta tomm...@lyx.org wrote: ... instead of XML, as discussed so often ... https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV He makes a strong case for GIT, and against XML. Especially taking into account human readability of the source

About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-06 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
... instead of XML, as discussed so often ... https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV T.

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-06 Thread stefano franchi
On Mar 6, 2014 8:09 PM, "Tommaso Cucinotta" wrote: > > ... instead of XML, as discussed so often ... > > https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV > > T. GSOC 2015? S.

Re: About using git as file format for lyx ...

2014-03-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 3:09 AM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > ... instead of XML, as discussed so often ... > > https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV > He makes a strong case for GIT, and against XML. Especially taking into account human readability of the