> I agree. This auto stuff is far too complicated to understand (both for > users and developers) and only makes your life as developer difficult.
I do not know what is so complicated about AUTO embedding. You continue to edit your document in the latex, external, pure-text, svn way, and if you need to send your file to others, you enable embedding and sent it. The recipient can view and modify your file without these supporting files. When you get the revision back, you unpack the file and continue to use your svn repository. This is the sole purpose why I design this embedding feature. Removing the AUTO feature make lyx/embedding difficult to use, as in the case of word/embedding. If you makes clear distinction between embedded and external. Your .lyx file has to be in either zipped or plain format because there is no easy way to convert between them without loss of information. This will be troublesome, as you have complained, when you svn your .lyx file. Also, as I have said, lead to completely DIFFERENT ways to handle .lyx file. You either go the MS/Word way, or the transitional lyx way. The auto feature makes the differences minimal. Cheers, Bo
