Re: LyX native format stuck in the middle

2017-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Fri, 11 Aug 2017 09:23:06 +0100 José Abílio Matos wrote: > On Monday, 31 July 2017 18.30.31 WEST Steve Litt wrote: > > I know what I'm asking for is monsterously difficult, and I know I > > certainly don't have the technical chops to do it. But when it gets > > done, LyX will

Re: LyX native format stuck in the middle

2017-08-11 Thread Richard Heck
On 08/11/2017 04:23 AM, José Abílio Matos wrote: > > On Monday, 31 July 2017 18.30.31 WEST Steve Litt wrote: > > > I know what I'm asking for is monsterously difficult, and I know I > > > certainly don't have the technical chops to do it. But when it gets > > > done, LyX will be a brand new world,

Re: LyX native format stuck in the middle

2017-08-11 Thread José Abílio Matos
On Monday, 31 July 2017 18.30.31 WEST Steve Litt wrote: > I know what I'm asking for is monsterously difficult, and I know I > certainly don't have the technical chops to do it. But when it gets > done, LyX will be a brand new world, finally living up to its promise > of write once, deploy

Re: LyX native format stuck in the middle

2017-08-05 Thread Bob Alvarez
I would like to second Steve Litt's plea for a well-formed Lyx native format. I wrote a script to create a package to submit to a journal from my paper's Lyx file. The package includes a tex file with the bibliography and figure files renamed with standardized names such as fig1.eps. It makes

LyX native format stuck in the middle

2017-07-31 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, I just commented, in another post, about how difficult it would make it on people to change the LyX native format. And yet it *does* change. Must have been about 10 years ago, the developers started transitioning the LyX native format to XML, and began by making it much more XML like,