On 12/17/2012 01:49 PM, Nico Williams wrote:
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote:
On 12/17/2012 11:45 AM, Alex Vergara Gil wrote:
There still are long-term plans to convert the native LyX format to XML.
But it turns out to be more work than one might expect.
rh
Really nice to hear about this, is there any schedule???
No, we've been discussing it for years, but no-one has ever been
sufficiently motivated actually to do it. As I said, it's harder than it
sounds.
I've filed some bugs last night about things that make it hard... :)
Meanwhile, the script I'm working on will effectively get us there,
though in a hackish way: externally, rather than by changing the C++
code. But I think that's OK. We can make a lot of progress by first
making sure there's a faithful XML representation of .lyx, as that
will allow all sorts of progress in terms of import/export
conversions, and having such an XML format to play with may help the
team to think more about how to structure the C++ code.
Yes, knowing exactly what the target output is makes the job a lot
easier. In some ways, that's always been the obstacle.
rh
