Re: about the .lyx formt

Hello all, On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 14:11:40 -0600 Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: ... If there was a loss-free, bi-directional conversion between LyX and some XML schema (XHTML, say), then that'd be good enough for now. There is an export to XHTML function, but I don't think there's

Re: about the .lyx formt

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Oleg Parashchenko o...@uucode.com wrote: Some time ago I experimented with LyX-XML roundtrip. In my idea, XML was not one-to-one mapping of .lyx structure, but an XML format * which convenient for processing and generation, and * with enough hints to restore

Re: about the .lyx formt

Hello all, On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 14:11:40 -0600 Nico Williams n...@cryptonector.com wrote: ... If there was a loss-free, bi-directional conversion between LyX and some XML schema (XHTML, say), then that'd be good enough for now. There is an export to XHTML function, but I don't think there's

Re: about the .lyx formt

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Oleg Parashchenko o...@uucode.com wrote: Some time ago I experimented with LyX-XML roundtrip. In my idea, XML was not one-to-one mapping of .lyx structure, but an XML format * which convenient for processing and generation, and * with enough hints to restore

Re: about the .lyx formt

Hello all, On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 14:11:40 -0600 Nico Williams wrote: > ... If there was a > loss-free, bi-directional conversion between LyX and some XML schema > (XHTML, say), then that'd be good enough for now. There is an export > to XHTML function, but I don't think

Re: about the .lyx formt

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:29 AM, Oleg Parashchenko wrote: > Some time ago I experimented with LyX<->XML roundtrip. In my idea, XML > was not one-to-one mapping of .lyx structure, but an XML format > > * which convenient for processing and generation, and > * with enough hints to

about the .lyx formt

Hi everyone! I am a user of LyX, not a developer, but somehow I feel I must do things to contribute to it. So I want to open a thread about the .lyx format. The question is why to have a .lyx format in plain text? Isn't xml a better one? I know plain text is easy to edit but we really

Re: about the .lyx formt

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Alex Vergara Gil a...@cphr.edu.cu wrote: The question is why to have a .lyx format in plain text? Isn't xml a better one? I know plain text is easy to edit but we really doesn't work with it since LyX do this for us. The advantages would be obvious:

Re: about the .lyx formt

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Alex Vergara Gil a...@cphr.edu.cu wrote: The question is why to have a .lyx format in plain text? Isn't xml a better one? .. There's a wiki where this is discussed. I agree, XML is better, not because XML is great, but because of tools like XSLT. If there

Re: about the .lyx formt

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Alex Vergara Gil a...@cphr.edu.cu wrote: Can you point me the address to the wiki please. I agree that having a bidirectional conversion is nice at first glance (or first step approximation lets say) but what I really expect in the future is to have the .lyx

about the .lyx formt

Hi everyone! I am a user of LyX, not a developer, but somehow I feel I must do things to contribute to it. So I want to open a thread about the .lyx format. The question is why to have a .lyx format in plain text? Isn't xml a better one? I know plain text is easy to edit but we really

Re: about the .lyx formt

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Alex Vergara Gil a...@cphr.edu.cu wrote: The question is why to have a .lyx format in plain text? Isn't xml a better one? I know plain text is easy to edit but we really doesn't work with it since LyX do this for us. The advantages would be obvious:

Re: about the .lyx formt

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Alex Vergara Gil a...@cphr.edu.cu wrote: The question is why to have a .lyx format in plain text? Isn't xml a better one? .. There's a wiki where this is discussed. I agree, XML is better, not because XML is great, but because of tools like XSLT. If there

Re: about the .lyx formt

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Alex Vergara Gil a...@cphr.edu.cu wrote: Can you point me the address to the wiki please. I agree that having a bidirectional conversion is nice at first glance (or first step approximation lets say) but what I really expect in the future is to have the .lyx

about the .lyx formt

Hi everyone! I am a user of LyX, not a developer, but somehow I feel I must do things to contribute to it. So I want to open a thread about the .lyx format. The question is why to have a .lyx format in plain text? Isn't xml a better one? I know plain text is easy to edit but we really

Re: about the .lyx formt

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: > The question is why to have a .lyx format in plain text? Isn't xml a better > one? I know plain text is easy to edit but we really doesn't work with it > since LyX do this for us. The advantages would be obvious: >

Re: about the .lyx formt

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: The question is why to have a .lyx format in plain text? Isn't xml a better one? .. There's a wiki where this is discussed. I agree, XML is better, not because XML is great, but because of tools like XSLT. If

Re: about the .lyx formt

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote: > Can you point me the address to the wiki please. > I agree that having a bidirectional conversion is nice at first glance (or > first step approximation lets say) but what I really expect in the future is > to have the