On 02/07/14, 10:49 , Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote: > >> The idea would be that a round-trip framework is envisaged, which >> provides the facilities to easily expand it from one export backend >> (docx) to another (possibly odt? markdown?). > > This sounds like a sort of testing framework which would indicate for > each export backend which features are exported and imported > successfully. It would be cool to have some matrix showing how mature > each of the supported formats is.
Nicely put! That would be brilliant. Not only formats, but converters: different converters convert different features. > > >>> >>> Perhaps we could define the goals as: >>> >>> 1. Define a minimal-lyx feature set (I.e. the supported LyX/LaTeX features) >> >> Agreed. >> >>> 2. Write a corresponding lyx-layout >> >> As I said, non-supported formats / features should be available to the >> user and handled gracefully, i.e. stored in a metadata file which will >> be re-applied when re-iporting the round-trip file. >> > > Would this also solve some of the LyX->LaTeX->LyX roundtrip issues ? Partly - if the export to LaTeX is split from the round trip LyX <-> LaTeX I would say yes, with the caveat, that only a subset of features would be supported by the round trip. In contrast, export - import would (hopefully sometime in the case of import from LaTeX) the full set of LyX and LaTeX features with (possibly ugly in LyX) the export / import. So: yes, the round-trip framework could be used for a subset of features initially for LyX <-> LaTeX, which can then be extended over time - I guess this would be the easiest to start with, actually. > >> >> Yes - although I see one problem which I could not find in any of the >> .lyx <-> .docx : comments and track changes. These *have to be handled*. >> I somehow have the feeling, that an inclusion of comments and track >> changes into pandoc would be the best way forward... > > What is the problem you see ? With pandoc? Actually none, only that the development work would need to be done in pandoc and not LyX. > > Vincent > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
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