Re: Popups/Layouts

[Seak, Teng-Fong]

Andre Poenitz wrote:

> Maybe there is a Better Thing. The current LyX format is far from being
> perfect. It works, yes, but it is not as simple as it could be and this
> is a major pain when it comes to interoperation with the rest of the
> world.
>
> Switch to some XMLish .newlyx format, and part of the hassle will vanish.

     Actually, why at the beginning LyX didn't write LaTeX directly but had
its own LyX format?  I suppose that's because LaTeX is too complicated to
parse, right?