I'm not enetering the technincalities of the thing, i'm not in
position to do so.
I'm just saying that one side LyX is the best word processor, but on
the other side most of the people, dumb like mule, stick to LaTeX just
because it's the standard de-facto.
This make LyX widespreadening much more difficult than it would be.
Result:
1) I can wirte my master thesis using LyX. It was 1.4.1 and I think
I saved so much time compared to Latex and i got a much better result
too (Latex can do better, but you need an infinite amount of time
...).
2) I cannot use LyX anymore because when you write in a
collaborarion a common format is needed and, de-facto, this is Latex,
not lyx file format. Isn't this sad?
Bye
On 9/15/07, Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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'
>
