On 2014-02-10, Georg Baum wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> On 2014-02-09, Georg Baum wrote: >>> Rainer M Krug wrote: >>>> On 02/07/14, 10:49 , Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: >>>>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote:
>>> One feature where additional metadata would >>> definitely help are branches. >> Not necessarily: With use the "comment" package, that not only provides >> comments, but also branches (as named comment environments) >> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/comment >> all branches could be exported to the LaTeX file and the selection of >> active branches done in the preamble. > Sure. In a more general sense this would be metadata as well: It would not > be used by LaTeX, but preserve LyX stuff through roundtrip. >> This feature should be customizable, because sometimes you don't want >> disabled branches in an exported file. >> On the LaTeX->LyX route, the use of the comment package and custom (named) >> comment environments should translate to LyX branches. > Yes, this would be one method to transport metadata through LaTeX which does > not need an additional file. It could probably be used for other stuff > besides branches or notes as well. When this project is started it needs > probably a thorough investigation whether an additional file or special > comments are preferrable. My point was somewhat different: The "comment" package is a LaTeX equivalent to LyX's "branches". "Semantic" export means that we use this feature to get all the data into the LaTeX file instead of "solving" the active/inactive state during export. This is similar to either hard-printing chapter/section/... numbers in the LaTeX file or using the auto-numbering LaTeX commands (i.e. \section*{0.1 my beer} vs. \section{my beer}). Günter
