Re: Please make LyX native language well formed and valid XML

2021-01-23 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Steve, I do not agree that your patience is relevant. This is an Open Source project and unless one contributes one takes what one gets. Which is a fantastic product. Personalizing can be easily done with templating for example something from my prescription writer \begin_layout Plain

Re: Please make LyX native language well formed and valid XML

2021-01-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 00:48:43 +0200 Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > While, > > I like XML out of principle, but besides that I find the tone of the > request a bit over the top, especially for such a huge undertaking, it > is rare to require LyX documents to be both manually and > programmatically

Re: Please make LyX native language well formed and valid XML

2021-01-20 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
While, I like XML out of principle, but besides that I find the tone of the request a bit over the top, especially for such a huge undertaking, it is rare to require LyX documents to be both manually and programmatically editable. Messing with the LyX file is admittedly difficult, why do it in

Re: Please make LyX native language well formed and valid XML

2021-01-20 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 03:23:37AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: > Even if the Docbook exporter were perfectly semantic and kept styles > intact, unlike the HTML exporter, Docbook is just a lillypad in the > middle of the stream, and to reach LaTeX, PDF, HTML or ePub, I'd need to > use the infamous

Re: Please make LyX native language well formed and valid XML

2021-01-20 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 13:30:00 +0100 Pavel Sanda wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:30:10PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > Le 17/01/2021 ?? 00:36, Steve Litt a écrit : > > >Having LyX native language be XML would allow write once, publish > > >anywhere, with programming a mere mortal

Re: Please make LyX native language well formed and valid XML

2021-01-19 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:30:10PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 17/01/2021 ?? 00:36, Steve Litt a écrit : > >Having LyX native language be XML would allow write once, publish > >anywhere, with programming a mere mortal could do. It was your goal a > >decade ago --- could you please

Re: Please make LyX native language well formed and valid XML

2021-01-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 17/01/2021 à 00:36, Steve Litt a écrit : Having LyX native language be XML would allow write once, publish anywhere, with programming a mere mortal could do. It was your goal a decade ago --- could you please finish the transition? Dear Steve, LyX 2.4.0 will be able to export to DocBook5.

Please make LyX native language well formed and valid XML

2021-01-16 Thread Steve Litt
Over 10 years ago, the LyX native language was substantially complexified, making programmed modification, in the name of turning it into XML. But in the past decade, the move to XML was never finished, leading to the worst-of-both-words situation where the native language is very complicated to