On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Juergen Vigna wrote:
> On 20-Jul-2001 Dekel Tsur wrote:
>
> >> Well what about "Export as LaTeX" functionality???
> >
> > So you want to use lyx on one machine, export to latex, and run latex on a
> > second machine ? Why not do the lyx->latex conversion on the 2nd machine ?
> > If you really need this feature, you can edit the packages.lst file.
> > Another option is to add a lyxrc variable that controls whether the exported
> > latex file uses uninstalled packages.
>
> Well what if:
>
> 1. The other person does not have LyX (maybe because of Windows, maybe because
> X11 is not installed!)
>
> 2. The other person does LaTeX only!
This is exactly the situation faced by a number of LyX users in academia.
Some use and love LyX but collaborate with others who insist on doing
everything with a needle and thread (instead of the sewing machine sitting
next to them).
It was problems with this situation that caused all the rucus about
getting reLyX fixed and the reason why the CCP2000 organising committee
requested better import/export/reimport of LaTeX.
> > I don't see why you need to implement a feature which will rarely be used.
>
> Because it's fun?
Because people do actually need this and use it now because we assume
internally that everything is available. Once proper checking is
incorported into LyX then we will have a _lot_ of unhappy users (even
unhappier than those annoyed with all the 666s) because they won't be able
to collaborate or operate as they had been.
Allan. (ARRae)
