Steve Litt wrote:
On Friday 06 February 2009 11:46:21 am Richard Heck wrote:
David Mertens wrote:
It would be great if ... the .lxy document would be bundled with all
images in a .zip file.
Great idea, but not trivial. Has this been discussed on the lists
before? If it has, I couldn't find it.
A lot, but mostly on devel. There is, in fact, a script that lives (in
svn) at development/tools/lyxpak.py that will take a LyX file and create
a sort of "package" of everything it needs. So, in a way, we have this.
What's never been agreed is how to have more: how to have a "bundled" or
"embedded" LyX format that would be more like an OOo file, in that
everything that was needed would be rolled up in one big piece.
Be careful what you wish for. Back in the 1990's I made all my tax worksheets
in MS Word, with embedded Excel spreadsheets for calculations and charts.
Skip ahead a few years and somehow those embeds shifted so you couldn't see
some of the columns. No problem, I'll just doubleclick and view them in
Excel.
Ooops!, they won't run as Excel any more. They became just as useless over a
few years as if they'd been left out in the rain to rust.
One of the things I've always loved about LyX is it always uses linking, and
never embedding. Sure, embeddings easier to keep track of, but if it it
corrupts a little, it corrupts absolutely.
Discussions have always been along the lines of making embedding an
option, mostly to be used in collaborative environments. Certainly LyX
itself won't make it necessary.
rh
