On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Gerard Briscoe wrote: > Are there serious problems with using a 'tex' file format, which you do > export too, limitations which would make the LyX GUI hard to code ?
LyX has it's own format, because: - besides LaTeX, LyX can also author SGML, XML, HTML, ASCII, and other formats. - LyX provides an abstraction on top of LaTeX, and these abstractions require additional information that needs to be serialized. It is technically possible to do so by embedding them in comments in TeX, but nobody implemented that. - LyX does not understand all LaTeX. However, it does understand all .lyx format. Regards, Asger Ottar Alstrup
