On 09/03/14 02:55, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> Tommaso Cucinotta wrote:
>> luckily, we're filling up these weird .lyx files contents using that
>
> Believe it or not there are people who are using scripts for batch creation of
> lyx files for automatized reports and using sed for processing stuff inside
> it.
I do believe it -- I can still remember when I sent a .lyx paper draft to a PhD
student, and he applied his changes with a plain-text editor,
learning-by-example
the .lyx syntax, and later he asked me "why don't we use for example latex?",
and
when I showed him there was LyX to edit those .lyx files, his jaw dropped :-)...
Frankly speaking, if the current format works well, is unambiguous, supports
well
various char encodings and languages, is parsed ok by external tools for example
for format upgrade and stuff, then let's just keep it as it is. To me, an XML
import/export would only make sense in view of .odt or .docx interoperability.
T.
