On 2009-02-05, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Guenter Milde wrote: >> In my view, to use LaTeX as exchange format, >> LyX development should
>> a) concentrate on an improved >> LyX -> LaTeX -> LyX >> cycle (with the aim to get this round-trip lossless) and >> b) encourage development/improvement of LaTeX converters (to/from >> OOffice, HTML, reStructuredText) that emphasise preserving the >> semantic over visual appearance. > In my view LateX is too specialized and complicated for an interchange > format. reStructuredText or any other simple markup language would be > just fine IMHO. But LaTeX is "feature complete", while reStructuredText is even missing math support (not to speak of paragraph alignment, tables, citations or a glossary). > I think it should not be difficult to extent lyx2lyx to handle > reStructuredText directly (or even HTML or OOfice). > Any taker? You just need to know python to handle this project, no need > to fiddle with LyX' internals at all. lyx2lyx provide a nice abstraction > layer other the lyx format. Sounds interesting, especially as the Docutils_ provide the abstraction of reStructuredText in Python as well, so a Docutils lyxwriter using lyx2lyx looks like a good idea. Günter
