On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:35 PM, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > The first project in our wiki page for GSOC 2014: > > http://wiki.lyx.org/GSoC/GSoCProjectIdeasFor2014 > > is, at the same time, the most ambitious and the least well-defined > (possibly because the former implies the latter). > > It is not clear to me if this a coding project or if it defines the outline > of a preliminary non-coding feasibility study that would, at most, produce a > document describing the minimal-lyx and minimal-docx feature sets (plus, > possibly, a minimal-lyx-layout and a minimal-doc-template). > > Any thought on how to make it more focused? > Rob has already done some work on this, with a working first release: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2012/03/08/word2lyx01-2
Maybe that could be a starting point, and perhaps he has some pointers on what can/needs to be done. Liviu > Perhaps we could define the goals as: > > 1. Define a minimal-lyx feature set (I.e. the supported LyX/LaTeX features) > 2. Write a corresponding lyx-layout > 3. Define a minimal-doc feature set (Word/ODF features corresponding to (1) > 4, Write a Word/OO template (the set of styles corresponding to 2) > 5. Provide an automated path from 1 to 4 and back using glue-code and > existing internal and external tools (e.g.: LyX export functions to > XHTML/EPub, eLyxer, pandoc, writer2latex, etc). > > I am not sure points 1-5 above capture the existing description, partly > because I am not sure about what is meant by "develop a framework". Perhaps > my summary caputeres the subgoal only? > > Stefano > > > -- > __________________________________________________ > Stefano Franchi > Associate Research Professor > Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 > Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 > College Station, Texas, USA > > stef...@tamu.edu > http://stefano.cleinias.org -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
