On Tuesday 01 April 2008 20:01:29 Bo Peng wrote: > > Bo one question, out of curiosity, do you know of any other program that > > does what you are proposing (working with external files)? > > No. :-) > > The embedding feature is unique in its bunble/unbundle reversibility. > In the word/ooffice world, embedded objects are embedded, and there > are limited options to edit them. In the latex world, all files are > external. The design of our embedding feature tries to please users in > both worlds. One can work completely in one style, or in another, and > the conversion between them will not loss any information.
I believe you, but all this seems very suspicious. Data integrity has always been one of our main goals. The fact that there are no know implementations makes me uneasy with such concept as a start. I can't understand what is the advantage of stopping half-way between these two concepts. Do you have any use case where this an obvious advantage? > Because of this uniqueness, I do not know any program that tries to > embed external files and unbundle them to another file system. I know, they are called file archives. :-) That is why I suspect that lyx is not the proper tool for the job. > Note that, if we disallow embedding of such files, an embed file may > fail to compile on another system. My goal was to allow complete > bundling of external files and the status quo is that everyone can > make such a file easily, which can be viewed and compiled on another > system, but unbundling can be troublesome. I have always thought that the main advantage of using an embedded file was that is self contained. The same before when Lars idea of a lyx-project implied a self contained directory where all the used files can be found in one single place. I am not convinced about the need to ease the unbundling. > Cheers, > Bo -- José Abílio
