On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 19:23, Rob Lahaye wrote: > As a general remark, I find the import quite crap. > > Import should open a file-dialog. This file-dialog should also have > a choice button: > auto > tex > linuxdoc > text-as-lines > text-as-paragraphs > [etc. etc.] > > The "auto" option (as default) will make a choice according to the file > extension (.tex = tex, .doc = linuxdoc, .txt = text-as-lines etc.). > The other choice options are for overruling this behaviour. > > Is there anything against such approach? > > Rob.
Sounds fairly sensible. Plus the export option needs a dialog. I can't maintain a .lyx and a .tex next to each other just in case I do an export and overwrite the .tex, for example. A file selector would be great. In fact it would be nice to have some batch conversion facility, so many convertors can be run on the one file, then the results can be archived up. That would make it easy to provide every known format for publishing on the Web, for example. Maybe just generates a shell script for you to customise yourself and run later. But as of right now the menu options are probably adequate. Whenever I need something converted I just click a few export options. Since there are currently no parameters to tweak from that menu it's pretty fast. What might also be cool is if the converter rules are extended to cover importing. So if I have format xyz and LyX knows how to convert xyz into abc and then abc into tex, then it can convert xyz into lyx =) But I can't think of an example of where this becomes handy. Sounds like too much AI for the job... Just a few random ramblings... Have fun, Darren
