Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Roberto Franceschini
September 2007, Roberto Franceschini wrote: > > 2) I cannot use LyX anymore because when you write in a > > collaborarion a common format is needed and, de-facto, this is Latex, > > not lyx file format. Isn't this sad? > > However, TeX is turing-complete, and thus it can be

Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Roberto Franceschini
I'm not enetering the technincalities of the thing, i'm not in position to do so. I'm just saying that one side LyX is the best word processor, but on the other side most of the people, dumb like mule, stick to LaTeX just because it's the standard de-facto. This make LyX widespreadening much more d

Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Roberto Franceschini
I got the point. I hope something in this direction can be done, compatibility is always a key issue and being both LyX and Tex open format they should be able to translate well. Thanks for the discussion. On 9/15/07, Abdelrazak Younes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roberto Francesch

Re: tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Roberto Franceschini
I love change tracking in LyX and I struggled to find something similar in TEX, so I really take care of what you say. What about a "compatibility mode" where nice feature like embedding, versioning, branching and all the .lyx-specific features are not available? This way the user can choose if us

tex as lyx native file format

2007-09-15 Thread Roberto Franceschini
I'd like to thank all of you for developing such a lovely program. I have a suggestion, probably already pointed out. Can make LyX work with TEX files as native document format? In this way using LYX in a collaboration would be much easier. Indeed, some of my collaborators don't want to use LyX a