> I like Richard's solution better. Having a zip based solution means that you > can 'unbundle' from the command line even without LyX, the base64 solution > is more complex.
On the other hand, the file format in my proposal is still plain text. For many other operations such as search and replace, you do not have to unzip. I consider this as an advantage. > I would favour a simple bundling / unbundling where everything is bundled > and everything is unbundled but add the possibility to use files on the > network (through ftp, ssh, http) using the Qt4 network stack. You could > then use a bibliography file common to your laboratory in your lyx article, > and get most of the functionalities (sharing some files and not others) > that Bo is talking about. These network files would not be bundable (is > this an English word ?). Good luck if you can get those. As I have mentioned, Richard's proposal is not friendly to external files. Bo
