On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 02:23:31PM -0500, Bo Peng wrote:
> > Can make LyX work with TEX files as native document format?
>
> .lyx file stores more information than a .tex file can ever store. For
> example, the change-tracking feature can save changes and produce
> different output (different .tex files) with or without revision
> marks. The branch feature can save different 'versions' of the same
> document. The yet-to-come embedding .lyx file can save dependent files
> along with .lyx file. Using .tex as the native lyx format would
> seriously limit what lyx can do.
I'd guess that this could even made working using markup like
\lyxbranch{name}{.....} etc.
However, that does not chance the fact that TeX is de-facto unparsable
by anything than TeX itself. Using it as "native" file format does not
make a lot of sense if we can't read it...
Andre'
