Hi Richard, On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 1:19 AM, rgheck <rgh...@bobjweil.com> wrote: >> Have you considered that Alex might help you with your HTML project since >> he knows HTML as well as you and might have more LyX-HTML experience due to >> his eLyXer. >> > Yes. I suggested we should work together. He refused.
Said in this way it may look a bit harsh. The reality is that, even though it would be great, I don't think the project of producing native HTML output is viable. Not in a "haha you will never catch me" way, but rather in a "it will get _very_ boring before it is useful" fashion. My opinion is that, even to get to the point where eLyXer stands _now_, a lot of manpower will have to be devoted. To get much farther, to the point where it can really leap ahead eLyXer, will be _very_ complex. You could devote a whole 3.0 dev cycle to it and still be short of the richness of e.g. the TeX output. I am not sure that this new project will even be started: Richard proposed to help me with it, not the other way around; and only after his exams were finished. Not a very solid promise, if I have to judge by my own University years :P So if I have to choose between being a principal developer of said project and continuing to improve eLyXer, where there are a lot of interested users and I have lots of fun, the answer is clear. And of course I will not commit to both things since it would be suicide. That said, there are a few ways in which we could colaborate if the project ever catches wind. First as a checkpoint: eLyXer already produces acceptable HTML for a wide variety of LyX documents, so this new native HTML output can try to mimic it first. Second is via the CSS: the new HTML code can use the eLyXer CSS, which already encodes (and encapsulates) a lot of presentation logic for LyX layouts. And third of course the usual colaboration way of having people to ask things. All of them can of course work both ways. Thanks, Alex.
