On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:13:11PM -0500, Tavin Cole wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 08:14:58PM -0600, david at aminal.com wrote: > > > > I'm not a tex or latex guru, but I have spent a fair amount of time with > > > > docbook. Even still, I think latex might be better for the 'root' > > > > format, > > > > since there are mature tools for working with it. Lyx is one of them, > > > > but > > > > Lyx still uses its own native format internally, and is moving towards > > > > docbook as its native storage format. > > > > > > You are welcome to make the decision. > > > > > > Please feel free to get started right away, if you wait for affirmation > > > from others nothing will happen, but if you actually do stuff people > > > will offer to help. Do you need CVS access? > > > > > > Ian. > > > > Don't worry, I'm working furiously on planning how to decide to get > > started!! > > When I looked into this it struck me that it would be very difficult to > coordinate the efforts of multiple authors with Lyx. We need a system where > every chapter/appendix in the manual is stored in a separate file. >
Why? Lyx can do this. There is an include file operation, I just tested it. Perhaps you were using an older version of Lyx? I'm using 1.1.6fix1 from January 31 2001. My beef with Lyx is that out-of-the-box Lyx can only import a couple of file formats, and I think that people should be able contribute docs in whatever format they find convenient. I'm willing to put together tools to handle file format conversions, and glue everything together. Probably what will happen is that the master format will be determined by what kind of toolchains we can put together, and the formats people like to write in. David Schutt > -- > > /* tavin cole > * composer of e-mail messages > */ > _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://www.uprizer.com/mailman/listinfo/devl
