On 02/27/2014 01:29 PM, stefano franchi wrote:
I'd like to hear other people's opinions on this. Here is what I think:
- Bibliography support with suitable styles is a must. This feature is
as crucial to someone working in the Humanities, as math support is
for someone working in the sciences. With the difference that
scientists can often avoid conversion to Word, while Humanists just can't.
Perhaps it would help to distinguish two projects: (i) Round-trip, for
collaboration; (ii) Export, for sending to a publisher, or whatever. If
we don't want to lose data, then we presumably have to save
bibliographic info as metadata we can reread on import. But if we're
only exporting, then we can either use ODT's bibliography support, e.g.,
or do the kind of thing we do with XHTML.
- I am not so sure about indexing. Indexing only makes sense for
books, really, and books have a different workflow. The index is
typically prepared last, *after* formatting issues have been settled
(for obvious reasons: page numbers change when you change format).
That means, to me, that indexing will be done from within the tool
used for final production (be it word/inDesign or latex). In other
words, once we get to the indexing stage, we are out of the round trip
and/or conversion loop for good.
Same distinction as above helps here.
- Cross references are important too, but not so relevant, I believe,
for the choice of the initial format. That is because we have the
needed info to produce cross-references in Lyx already (witness the
xhtml translation).
There are cross-references in ODT, but they may be handled so
differently that it would be hard to go back and forth. I don't know.
- As for more complex latex-produced output (tikz, pstricks,
etcetera), I really don't know, but it seems to me that it would be
really really difficult to get it right, if at all possible. The only
possibility would be to save these portion of the text as metadata, as
Rainer originally suggested.
Yes.
Richard
