On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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. > > This is great news. I was unaware of Rob's work in this area. I guess it's take care of both points (3) and (4) (and half of (5)) in my list. At list in a preliminary way. Perhaps we could focus on Python skills and on familiarity with LyX/LaTeX and Word formats? If so, I'd be willing to be potential mentor for the project, unless Rob wants to step in. The conversion to Word and the correlated problems when cooperating with non-LyX using colleagues is by far the biggest problem I have with LyX and I would love to see some progress on it. Cheers, 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
