Bo Peng wrote:
If I think of openoffice zip file versus ms office
filesystem-in-a-file, I know which one is easier to tinker with.
Base64 may seem nice because it is text, but if child documents end up
being in base64, all the interested of svn is lost, for example.
We should choose a file format that serves LyX well. I agree with you
that OOo format is better than MS format but this does not matter
here. OOo/Word users *does not* use external files.
You surely meant "*most* users do not use external files". But this is
of course possible and not very hard, at least for MS Word.
They do not have
to work in unbundled mode, they do not have to unbundle.
Right, MSWord do not offer the possibilty to extract an embedded object.
You have to use copy&paste.
Abdel.
