On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:21:43AM +1800, Bo Peng wrote: > > Once I improved a script which collected all files used by LyX in a tar > > archive. I am attaching here this script. It is a Bourne shell script, > > but I think that Bo would be able to easily convert it to python. > > If there's interest it could even be distributed with LyX. I think > > that it is better than nothing. > > It is better than nothing but the users still have to unpack the > archive and put various supporting files (.layout, .cls, .bst etc) in > place before the lyx file can be opened.
You're never satisfied! ;-) > When 1.6.x is started, I will propose an XML/ODF based solution. The > basic idea is that we can store those latex-related files within the > ODF file, and allow ooffice and word to open the ODF file with basic > formating. No latex->doc conversion is required then. Hmmm. I think that there are a lot of people using LyX because they can store .lyx documents in a version control system. You are going to upset many users, I fear. -- Enrico
