Dear Developers--- The syntax of TeX/LaTeX, or shall I say absence of it, is insane. It also means that nothing except TeX/LaTeX can grok its contents. I have always wished for a more sane subset of LaTeX, which I could use to author my documents, and which could give me and others the ability to write scripts that parse documents.
It would be terrific if tex2lyx defined a subset of latex markup which it considers to be sane. Preferably, this could come with a "lint" like mini-compiler that could alert me if my latex code deviates from this syntax. lyx would have to be guaranteed to import and export files that conform to this sane syntax. come to think of it, tex2lyx in a sense could be this processor. all that is missing is a document that explains what the latex subset is that documents should be using (and not be using). the lyx project is in a terrific position to publish such a specification, because it has the ability to make it immediately useful. In the long run, maybe other structured text processors could agree on the same sane latex subset. just a suggestion... /iaw
