On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn <v.f.vanraveste...@tudelft.nl> wrote: > Piero Faustini schreef: >> >> Pavel Sanda <sa...@...> writes: >> >> >>> >>> when you download lyx installer (not the bundled version), you are >>> enforced >>> to install miktex too? to remove export/view menu items is a piece of >>> cake. >>> to deny editing of certain elements would be harder. >>> >> >> should this part of the discussion be moved to the Lyx.Devel list? >> >> > > No, not yet. I encouraged this thread on this list to gain ideas and needs > of users, but I don't think we have already found a solution that would suit > most of the users. > > Although I was enthusiastic when I first saw this proposal, but I do not > think it is something that solves the problem. > > 1. LyX is pretty lightweight, as you don't have to install any of the > additional stuff, > 2. You still have to convince your coauthor to install a new program, > 3. Your coauthor has to learn how to use LyX, while the starting point of > this discussion was that some coauthors just want to use their own tool.
Points 2 and 3 are very valid points, and as much as I like the idea of a lightweight LyX (for portable devices even????), the options of editing via PDFs and conversion from and to rtf, should be explored further as they really would solve the problem. While I am talking about export to rtf: the exporter to rtf does not, when used from LyX with the default commandline options (latex2rtf -p -S -o $$o $$i), does not take changes in margins in LyX into considerations... I still consider the via comments in pdfs together with syncTeX as the easiest to include. Also, with syncTeX, it should be possible to import the comments as notes in the original LyX document (at the right position) - stated from somebody who does not know anything about the inner workings of LaTeX and pdfs. Rainer > > Vincent > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Faculty of Science Natural Sciences Building Private Bag X1 University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South Africa
