On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 09/22/2010 12:56 PM, Erich Hoover wrote: > >> I've been starting to get a few of the people I work with to convert to >> LyX and I've been noticing that when sending documents between authors it >> would be convenient to not always be ZIPping up all the dependencies. Is >> there any chance that patches to allow embedding files in LyX documents >> would get accepted into LyX mainline? My thought would be to have something >> like the following before the actual document: >> ... >> > You know how to stir the hornets' nest, don't you? ;-) > > There is a long story behind this kind of idea, which I will not recount. > Suffice it to say there was some disagreement about implementation. If you > think about it for a bit, you will see that there are some potential > security issues. Those were part of the issue. > ... Sorry to be a bother, I've not run into any particular problems with LyX - so I do not have an active roll in your community that would make me aware of this issue. I did not see anything on the FeaturePoll page, so I incorrectly assumed there was nothing going on on this front. Thank you all for your contributions to LyX, it has made my life much easier on numerous occasions. Erich Hoover ehoo...@mines.edu
