On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:50:51AM +0100, Andre Poenitz spake thusly: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:01:44AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > But, just to make my position clear: I am very happy that you are > > doing this, it is certainly a part in LyX that needs work. However I > > am afraid that this work, instead of unifying LaTeX and XML support, > > just shifts the support. My aim is to have .lyx files that work > > equally well with latex or xml, and that the two formats (or more) are > > equally well supported by the .lyx format _with the same mechanisms_. > > I do not want part of the .lyx format to be tuned specifically for xml > > and the same goes for latex. It might be that to be a universal format > > the .lyx format needs to be very xml/sgml like, that is ok. Anyway, > > that is my take on this. .lyx changes and .layout changes should, as > > far as it is possible, be usable by all output formats. > > That's completely reasonable. > > But as we haven't had philosophical arguments for a while I'd like to > add: > > In natural sciences it is not unheard of to have two competing > theories for a while as it takes that while to figure out what a common > theory would look like. > > Moreover, there are even places where using a simpler, but "wrong" > theory is just good enough. To handle car crashes one usually does not > have to use Lorentz tranformation. "Common sense" Gallilei is good > enough... > > Andre'
Good point. And you know what: this offers the promise of re-integrating LinuxDoc into XML/SGML/DocBook. Not immediately, but after some more work. It's not LaTeX, but it helps... Attached the patch against current CVS as a refresher, as well as an example file processed with it to AGU layout for illustration. I'll commit in the evening then. - Martin -- Martin Vermeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Helsinki University of Technology Dept. of Surveying, Inst. of Geodesy P.O. Box 1200, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland :wq
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