Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-17 Thread José Matos
On Saturday 15 September 2007 22:10:07 Roberto Franceschini wrote: > 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. What is a standard depends a lot on what people a

Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:10:07PM +0200, Roberto Franceschini wrote: > 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

Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Bo Peng
> > 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? You can try to convert your co-authors. If you are the first author, they do not need to know anything about lyx before

Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 11:10:07PM +0200, Roberto Franceschini wrote: > 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

Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Paul A. Rubin ha scritto: it would help if the LaTeX to LyX conversion were more robust. So, is there a wiki page on TODO items for the tex<->lyx conversions ? T.

Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Roberto Franceschini ha scritto: Can make LyX work with TEX files as native document format? You may easily write, as I did, a script that converts a .tex file to the LyX format into a temporary folder, opens it with LyX, and, once you close the program, exports it back to .tex overwriting yo

Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Roberto Franceschini wrote: What about Scientific Workplace, I never used it, but some my co-author do. Seems to provide an editor with formula preview, table preview, etc while editing a .tex file. Why lyx can't run like this? How is one person using SW and one person using LaTeX better than

Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Roberto Franceschini
What about Scientific Workplace, I never used it, but some my co-author do. Seems to provide an editor with formula preview, table preview, etc while editing a .tex file. Why lyx can't run like this? Roberto On 9/15/07, Hans Meine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Samstag 15 September 2007, Roberto

Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Roberto Franceschini
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 d

Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
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

Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Roberto Franceschini
I got the point. I hope something in this direction can be done, compatibility is always a key issue and being both LyX and Tex open format they should be able to translate well. Thanks for the discussion. On 9/15/07, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roberto Franceschini wrote: >

Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Roberto Franceschini wrote: I love change tracking in LyX and I struggled to find something similar in TEX, so I really take care of what you say. What about a "compatibility mode" where nice feature like embedding, versioning, branching and all the .lyx-specific features are not available? This

Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Roberto Franceschini
I love change tracking in LyX and I struggled to find something similar in TEX, so I really take care of what you say. What about a "compatibility mode" where nice feature like embedding, versioning, branching and all the .lyx-specific features are not available? This way the user can choose if us

Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Bo Peng
> 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 sav

tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Roberto Franceschini
I'd like to thank all of you for developing such a lovely program. I have a suggestion, probably already pointed out. Can make LyX work with TEX files as native document format? In this way using LYX in a collaboration would be much easier. Indeed, some of my collaborators don't want to use LyX a