On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 05:39:58AM -0200, Joao Luis Meloni Assirati wrote: > > On the other hand, implementing latex parsing right inside the lyx kernel > > would save the .lyx format "rendering", so no translation is needed, just > > parsing. Right? > > The current .lyx format. Yes. But there will be a new XML(-ish) .lyx > format that's more robust to parse and easier to interchange with other > applications. It looks to me that this is totaly independent of the .lyx format, i.e., if you support .tex natively, conversion to .lyx is not necessary. Anyway, if one wants to convert .tex to .lyx in this case, opening the .tex and saving the buffer as .lyx will allways work. > Nevertheless, I think the ability to handle .tex natively, > is crucial for the acceptance of LyX in the academic community. Oh, definitely! .tex is an universal format in academic community. > Currently, > this is in a sore state of a one-and-a-half-way road (.lyx->.tex works, > .tex->.lyx does not really work) OK, but (just as a thought) I don't see the point in saing that .lyx -> .tex is a conversion, since it is a vital part of lyx. Without it you don't even have printing. Thank you for the discussion! Joćo.
