> While I agree, more or less, with Piero Faustini that _one_ way to > push LyX further is to ignore other documents (especially .doc's) I > still think that a tool should be interoperable meaning, except of > getting it working on most operating systems, that it is able to > handle most known/established document formats (painless import/export).
Even if we can get LyX to handle 'all' document formats, saving your work as e.g. MS Word format, will inevitably reduce the representation of the document. That is, not all options of LyX are supported in the MS Word format and vice versa. Thus, painless import/export won't be possible. Maybe we should find a way to perfectly support content-only collaboration: Usually only one author governs the layout, so when you share your document with a co-author, you only want him or her to edit the content. Ideally: you save your document as plain text, your co-authors can open this plain text in their own editor, edit the text, give back another plain text file and you now want to merge this plain text file with your LyX file and accept/reject the changes. Vincent
