On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 10:53:37PM -0500, Tavin Cole wrote: > On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:43:41PM -0600, david at aminal.com wrote: > > > 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. > > Perhaps. It didn't work with 1.1.4. I can't remember whether I tested with > later versions. >
I think includes that actually work are a fairly recent development, like in this version :-) > > 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. > > What do you think of DocBook? I kind of like the idea of writing in raw XML > with my text editor.. plus I'd think that this kind of source format should > be more friendly to CVS merging. But I haven't written Lyx or Latex by hand > yet. > I like DocBook, been messing around with it for a while now. I've done some things in Emacs + psgml, but I'm not fond of Emacs and find trying to write and deal with tags at the same time very distracting. All of these formats (TeX, Lyx, Latex, XML, DocBook, etc.) are markup languages, they should be fine with CVS. Even RTF (Rich Text Format from the Evil Empire) would be okay. Anyway, I'm sure the format thing will work out, it's the content I'm worried about :-) David Schutt > -- > > /* tavin cole > * composer of e-mail messages > */ > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://www.uprizer.com/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://www.uprizer.com/mailman/listinfo/devl
