On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, rgheck wrote:
Then you could check for changes to the existing file and figure out how
to integrate them, or pop up some sort of conflict resolution thingy if
that was non-trivial. Of course, you'd also want to be able to save the
file to the remote location.
If you'd really want to do the simple thing for a single file, then I can
explain the API for working with the wiki servers' pages. Why the pages?
Well, since .lyx is plain text, it could just be stored directly in a wiki
page, see further down. Anyway:
* To download a page source:
curl 'http://wiki.lyx.org/Group/File?action=source' > File.lyx
* To upload I don't have in my head, it's a HTTP POST and quite easy.
It get's a _little_ bit more complicated if you want to detect that
someone else has edited the document in between (which you should!).
But if the access method were, say, scp or webdav or something, then
this is do-able. But, as you say, I'm not sure LyX (or, for that matter,
anything) needs this kind of immediate visibility.
I agree. You really need to think through how and when to allow people to
access the document.
/Christian
PS. Having written the above, you could actually do the following:
* Store the .lyx-file in a wiki page as the following "wiki markup":
(:LyX-file:)
<LyX file goes here>
(:LyX-fileend:)
* When such a wiki page is rendered by the wiki server, it doesn't
actually have to show the LyX source. There are several options (not
exclusive):
** Insert a [PDF] link for the (:LyX-file:)...(:LyX-fileend:).
When you click that link you get a PDF version of the LyX document.
The server can maintain a cached copy of the PDF to speed things up.
** Use a thumbnail image of a page from the LyX document as link text.
Clicking this image could then e.g. show the PDF.
** Insert a [Source] link, clicking it returns the .lyx-file
** Insert a special [LyX edit] link, clicking on it launches the process
described above. You'd probably have to do something with your browser
to get this to work.
A lot of this is quite easy to implement, but you will also have a lot of
disadvantages (external image files, lot's of people may edit it etc)
--
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
