On Wednesday 30 July 2008 10:51:36 Christian Ridderström wrote: > One thing I thought about as an interesting question is if it's true that > LyX is _only_ a frontend for LaTeX. Do we support or plan to support > different backends than LaTeX?
There is always a tension between being generalist and being tied to any particular system. I would like to compare this with Darwinian evolution. With the current system that we have today we are very close to latex, and if we want to have the same degree of success (for other backends) we need to use ERT for other formats (docbook/XML or text). It is not possible to use the same document and to export it docbook, or to text without a more dynamic layout format. A good analogy with the current model is the layout files are our own version of css (that supports different outputs, the screen and the backend: latex, plain text or docbook). In order to faithfully convert the same document to different backends we need something more powerful than just css. With all its deficiencies xslt provides a standard language to transform documents. > Oh well, off to vacation > /Christian -- José Abílio
