On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Antonio Zugaldía Rodríguez wrote:
> In other hand... Why LyX uses a specific file format for the document? I
> know the controversy on using tex as a primary file format, but... Why
> not to use other file format wide used as XML? So you can use libs for
> manipulating it instead of creating specific routines (abiword uses XML
> for example). I am thinking on libs as libxml, ...
There is much support for the idea of using an XML format for LyX, and
although the core team have no particular plans at present, there is at
least one person working on it (I forget the name ;-( ) and the core
developers will almost certainly be happy to include it if it is
backwards-compatible (i.e. still supports reading and writing of .lyx
files)
Jules
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