On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 08:44:13PM +0200, Gaillard Pierre-Olivier wrote:
> I am currently in the process of replacing Interleaf (a big publishing
> package like Framemaker) with LyX/Latex.
> I have managed to write a Python program that converts our Interleaf
> documents . This convinced a few of my coworkers that LyX is a great
> choice since editing in LyX is more intuitive than in Interleaf
> (bibliography and indexes are really better).
Cool!
> - XML format. this is not a real problem since I have shown that a basic
> utility to write LyX files could be written in less than one day. I
> think they will trust me if I say that we could export our LyX files to
> some XML format in a few day. Anyway I really think that the current
> format is strange ('end float' is not the same as 'end float ' !!) and
> XML would be an EASY and FASHIONABLE replacement.
You are not alone in thinking this; it comes up frequently (I proposed
it once). There is quite a high level of support for the general idea,
but the core developers don't see it as a high priority --- so it's
most likely to happen if some interested third-party (like me, if I
had more time) does the grunt work!
Jules
