Re: Update on discussions of LyX<-->Word export and round trip

2014-03-04 Thread stefano franchi
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Georg Baum wrote: > stefano franchi wrote: > >> That may be an option, but, as I mentioned, tex4ht project is very >> complex. I don't think it's a chance that the current maintainers, who >> are both Tex gurus with a deep knowledge of the structures tex4ht >> mani

Re: Update on discussions of LyX<-->Word export and round trip

2014-03-04 Thread Georg Baum
stefano franchi wrote: > That may be an option, but, as I mentioned, tex4ht project is very > complex. I don't think it's a chance that the current maintainers, who > are both Tex gurus with a deep knowledge of the structures tex4ht > manipulates, have not released a new version after Eitan Guirar

Re: Update on discussions of LyX<-->Word export and round trip

2014-03-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
Liviu Andronic writes: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:17 AM, stefano franchi > wrote: >>> not as much formatting (exceptions do apply, e.g. italics or bold of >>> words, which is important in articles which contain species names which >>> have to be in italics). >>> >> >> It should not. That is: a

Re: Update on discussions of LyX<-->Word export and round trip

2014-03-04 Thread Rainer M Krug
stefano franchi writes: > On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: >> stefano franchi writes: >> >>> Dear Lyx devels, >> >> Hi Stefano, >> >> thanks for a good summary of the discussion - I think you have >> identified the main points. I have some comments below. >> >>> >>> given th

Re: Update on discussions of LyX<-->Word export and round trip

2014-03-03 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:17 AM, stefano franchi wrote: >> not as much formatting (exceptions do apply, e.g. italics or bold of >> words, which is important in articles which contain species names which >> have to be in italics). >> > > It should not. That is: a word-export conversion should *not

Re: Update on discussions of LyX<-->Word export and round trip

2014-03-03 Thread stefano franchi
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Georg Baum wrote: > stefano franchi wrote: > >> (a) (Mimicking Latex) has the obvious problem that even once the basic >> LaTeX functionality is recovered, the LaTeX packages have to be >> basically recreated for the new engine. This is what happens in >> LaTeXML, w

Re: Update on discussions of LyX<-->Word export and round trip

2014-03-03 Thread stefano franchi
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > stefano franchi writes: > >> Dear Lyx devels, > > Hi Stefano, > > thanks for a good summary of the discussion - I think you have > identified the main points. I have some comments below. > >> >> given the intense discussion we have had in the

Re: Update on discussions of LyX<-->Word export and round trip

2014-03-03 Thread Georg Baum
stefano franchi wrote: > (a) (Mimicking Latex) has the obvious problem that even once the basic > LaTeX functionality is recovered, the LaTeX packages have to be > basically recreated for the new engine. This is what happens in > LaTeXML, where you have to write "bindings" fr every package you nee

Re: Update on discussions of LyX<-->Word export and round trip

2014-03-03 Thread Rainer M Krug
stefano franchi writes: > Dear Lyx devels, Hi Stefano, thanks for a good summary of the discussion - I think you have identified the main points. I have some comments below. > > given the intense discussion we have had in the last few days on this > possible project, I thought I would briefly

Update on discussions of LyX<-->Word export and round trip

2014-03-01 Thread stefano franchi
Dear Lyx devels, given the intense discussion we have had in the last few days on this possible project, I thought I would briefly sum up some of the early conclusions (also because some items were discussed in private emails). (BTW: In the following I say "Word" for the sake of brevity. I actua