> You know what would be great instead of a lyx compressed file? A > portable lyx format. Quite frankly I don't see much the interest of > having the lyx text file compressed as it is alreday quite small even > for very big file.
A while ago, a few users, actually only two, including me, reported that leading dots in lyx format may cause file transferring problem. It turned out that a spam filter (DSPAM) caused the problem, Since there is no clear solution, I am still relying on gzip to work around it. > I would pay for this kind of feature... Since lyx/latex often uses external files, we need to have a clear mind what to do exactly. I haven't thought about this clearly, but figures etc may be all over the places, and in subdirectories. Export->latex etc may help but I would like to keep the original figures, not the converted ones. And lyx needs to be really clever to handle the inclusion of .bst, .layout etc. So, the easiest solution, I think, is to let the user do the packing job. What lyx can do, is 1. provide a include ... menu so users can tell lyx which file(s) to include in the saved .lyz file. Of course lyx can be a little more clever to include the obvious ones. 2. when a file.lyz is opened, and multiple files are found, unpack (internally) and work with all the files inside (file.lyx and others). Sounds like a good plan? Bo
