Hi all,
If two Latex users want to communicate their work and collaborate on it, one
user uses LyX, and another user uses WinEdt,
what is the most comfortable way for them to collaborate on the same paper?
Currently I use LyX and my colleague uses WinEdt.
Our typical workflow is:
1. I open the TEX file in the common directory using "IMPORT" in LyX;
2. I do some editing; then I use "View DVI" and found that the layout has
been changed. A side-by-side comparison showed that not only the layout has
been changed, but also the paper was shrank from 8 pages to 7 pages. Some
parts which should be in footnote in WinEdt now shifts to the middle of the
page when viewing DVI in LyX. Some parts should not be BOLD in WinEdt now
changes into BOLD in LyX.
3. Then I use "EXPORT" in LyX to save the edited file as Latex file.
4. My colleage opens it in WinEdt and a compilation showed the same visual
effects as described above. It looks LyX forced these change permanently.
Not only that, my colleage found out that the formatted blocks such as
"\begin{equation}
...
...
\end{equation}"
now became inline after the LyX modified it, it looks like "\begin{equation}
... \end{equation}" ... and all the formatting was gone. Although this does
not matter but it makes visual inspection of the document worse -- imagine
you have to find your equations blocks which is embedded a super large chunk
of texts.
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I want to ask is there a way not disallow LyX change the style/layout format
of a TEX file, so that an IMPORT and then EXPORT will get me back to the
original document?
Thanks a lot!
