Just for the record, DOCX files are ZIP files in disguise.
But I really don't understand the issue. When done editing make a tar.gz again and be done. Make is your friend. If you want to collaborate it's probably even better to do this with GIT, which LyX supports, if I am not mistaken. el On 2017-07-27 16:52 , Roberto wrote: > Hi Richard, thanks for bringing in your experience. > > If the tar.gz was something you can "mount" like a read-write DMG it > would make sense to say that the archive does what I have in mind. As > far as I know one can open DMG files and edit them and close them, > effectively saving the content. The way it is now with tar.gz for me > it is good only for archival purposes. > > Hopefully more people would enjoy having a "all-inclusive" file like > this one. > > Cheers, > Roberto > > > On 27/07/2017 16:40, Richard Heck wrote: [...] ]>> There was some discussion of such a file structure, and I did a >> bunch of work on it myself a few years ago. But there were also >> disagreements about how exactly it should work, so it never went >> anywhere. The archive we have now was a kind of compromise. But note >> that it really is a pretty good compromise. It gives you, precisely, >> a 'directory structure' that contains all the files needed for that >> document. It's just that it's packed into a zip file or whatever. >> >> What it LyX was able to open such an archive directly? And what >> if, when it had done so, it 'saved' the file directly to such an >> archive? I can easily imagine the unpacking actually being done into >> the temporary directory. This might not be very hard to achieve. >> >> Richard
