On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:11:26PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote: > > I don't like this idea of a zip-lyx. There are other ways. For example > > any external file could be base64 encoded and inlined in the lyx file. > > A zip file allows much more complicated structure and easier > manipulation than the 'inline' embedding. Actually, earlier versions > of word documents used it, but all later versions of word and > ooffice/odf, use a zip/directory/file-filesystem approach.
I am worried that simple manipulations of a lyx file (in order to overcome deficiencies in the GUI) become more complicated/impossible to perform. Then, I wonder how a zip file fits a version control system. Please, don't mention Word, as this has a strange effect on me, in that I automatically hate whatever is associated with it... -- Enrico
