On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 05:36:56PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Am Sonntag, 5. November 2006 17:25 schrieb Enrico Forestieri: > > > Maybe tex2lyx should be updated to take into account the fact that > > the latex file could be utf8 encoded? > > Yes, as I wrote: tex2lyx almost completely ignores encodings. > > > If I am not wrong, now LyX could output such encoding. > > Yes, that is possible, but it does not matter since tex2lyx is also for > importing foreign TeX files, and those can be in utf8 since a couple of > years.
Ah, so you already took that into account. Good. > Tex2lyx is currently several file format versions behind LyX, but I don't > know if it makes sense to work on that. If José is really serious with > reimplementing it in python then it does not make sense to do anything > else than simple bugfixes with the current code. > I am however not sure whether it is really a good idea to reimplement > tex2lyx, because that will be a lof of work, and although I agree that > several things can be done more elegantly in python I doubt that the > benefit will be so big that it is worth the effort. I share your views. However, I think that that should be decided as soon as possible, in order to avoid a stale condition. -- Enrico
