Am Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2007 18:25 schrieb Bo Peng: > I have listed five advantages of using system clipboard and I guess > you agree with me on those.
Only partially ;-) > As I have said, after we unify the > clipboard access, we can perfect the parse function slowly, and we do > not have to accept 'anything tex2lyx or lyx2lyx can handle' right now. No, we don't have to do that. But even if we leave that aside and start with an internal format only we will have to invent this format and have a perfect parsing function before we can replace the existing internal clipboard. > As for performance, as far as I remember, one can put multiple formats > to the clipboard and another application can choose to paste from a > certain format. It might be possible that we put pure text (for other > application) as well as binary presentation of lyx clipboard such as > lyx-text:blah, lyx-table:blah. Then, lyx paste can choose to paste > from lyx internal format if it is available, or from pure text. Yes, that is also my understanding. > To achieve what I have in mind needs a lot of work. That is why I did > not bring it up before. However, we should try to agree upon what > should be done, and if we are doing anything right now, we go towards > the goals (I am pointing to isInternal()). I also agree. But in contrast to you I think that isInternal() goes in that direction ;-) Georg
