Rainer M Krug wrote: > LyX itself. So my question: would this new XML format mean the "good bye" to > the plain text format
This is not "good bye" to the plain text format, most probably it would one of the many conversion routes we provide (similarly as e.g. elyxer fro html), at least that's how I understood the aim of Nico. > of the .lyx file, or would the XML be a new parallel, fully (and I mean > fully!) equivalent and > exchangeable format in LyX? >From the very beginning this is not going to be _fully_ equivalent due to the >approach (external python script instead of C++ patch changing LyX internals). Any nontrivial fileformat change in future will break the script. In any case the proper place where this should be discussed is developer list, not users list, let's see what will happen there :) Pavel
