On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 03:25:04PM +0300, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:27:36PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> >
> > I'd really like to see an XML format for 1.3 ... as it would make
> > things much easier to convert in the future ...
>
> Personally, I think it best to have lyx store its files as a valid
> latex files (using latex comments for storing some information). I
> know that this has been discussed before. What were the arguments
> against it ? (complexity of the parser?)
Actually, XML is driven, in part, by the scientific community trying
to come up with a successor to HTML that does everything that
LaTeX/TeX has done for them, while leaving room for expansion in the
future.
And, there are plans for crafting an XSL that converts XML+MathML into
LaTeX. So, you get both.
Vis-a-vis MathML: we don't need to specify/support both syntactic and
contextual formats. And that's why the two flavors of MathML exist:
use only what makes sense for your application. And that's what LyX
should do. (See my other emails on this point.)
--
John Weiss
"Not through coercion. Not by force. But by compassion. By
affection. And, a small fish." -His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama
