Guenter Milde wrote:
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
Word people do math?
:-)
Anyway, I was talking about basic structured, text only, document
collaboration. Anything more complicated will need of course the same
backend format for all collaborators (either LyX or LateX I agree).
Quite frankly, I find it illusionary to even think that it is possible
to collaborate on complex documents when the collaborators use different
tools.
Abdel.
