> When do you expect XML to become mainstream?
I don't expect Microsoft Word format will disappear in a long time.
Microsoft Word has so many features that are very hard to express
in XML format, so I doubt that XML will become the main format for
Word documents anytime soon.
However, I'm sure
On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 02:24:27PM +, Duncan Simpson wrote:
> When I last heard XML is a standard like SGML. You have to supply a DTD (document
>type description?). You need different tools for different DTDs :-) M$ could produce
>a wierd word DTD that is very hard to import, for example by
> On 1 Oct, Allan Rae wrote:
> I understood you perfectly. I do think (hope) that XML will become a
> standard, let us hope that that happens real soon. Until then, maybe
> we could have a M$ Word importer/exporter.
>
Modulo some major limitations word2x, catdoc or MSWordview might do the j
On 1 Oct, Allan Rae wrote:
>
> You missed my point. With SGML and XML as the new standard for document
> interchange (even MS says they are moving Office to use it) then we won't
> have to worry about Word-binary-formats anymore.
>
> Allan. (ARRae)
>
I understood you perfectly. I do think
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Juergen Vigna wrote:
> I don't think (as Alejandro does) that we'll drop the format in
> near future. There are other more important and more interesting
> stuff to do (lot's of it ;)
Hey, don't be afraid! I'm not suggesting that I'll try to resurrect the
old lyx3 project. Ye
On 01-Oct-99 Alejandro Aguilar Sierra wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Andre' Poenitz wrote:
>
>> I wonder whether there is a non-zero probability that LyX's "native"
>> format will be dropped entirely at some point in the future.
>
> IMO the probability is high, but don't hold your breath.
>
If
On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Andre' Poenitz wrote:
> I wonder whether there is a non-zero probability that LyX's "native"
> format will be dropped entirely at some point in the future.
IMO the probability is high, but don't hold your breath.
Alejandro
> You missed my point. With SGML and XML as the new standard for document
> interchange (even MS says they are moving Office to use it) then we won't
> have to worry about Word-binary-formats anymore.
I wonder whether there is a non-zero probability that LyX's "native"
format will be dropped ent
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 27 Sep, Allan Rae wrote:
> > On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > [...]
> >> I believe that as soon as LyX has a nice enough document
> >> importer-exporter it can become a major plater in the
> >> "word-proccessing" business.
>
On 27 Sep, Allan Rae wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [...]
>> I believe that as soon as LyX has a nice enough document
>> importer-exporter it can become a major plater in the
>> "word-proccessing" business.
>
> I'd argue that Jose' is already working on that import/
On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
> I believe that as soon as LyX has a nice enough document
> importer-exporter it can become a major plater in the
> "word-proccessing" business.
I'd argue that Jose' is already working on that import/export facility:
SGML
via Doc
On 22 Sep, Garst R. Reese wrote:
> I think you have not used LyX long enough :)
I normally use LaTeX to write my documents :)
My co-workers use LyX. But I cannot convince everybody else!!
> Get busy with perl or python an script an interface.
I cannot write this type of software, I do not h
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> > My point is that LyX is intended for editing structured documents and
> > it is wrong for LyX to be able to handle non-structured documents as
> > well. Writing converters between various formats is a good thing, but
> > since the target of word processors and
>
> My point is that LyX is intended for editing structured documents and
> it is wrong for LyX to be able to handle non-structured documents as
> well. Writing converters between various formats is a good thing, but
> since the target of word processors and LyX is so different, I don't
> think
On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 20:49:15 +0900, Shigeru Miyata wrote:
>My point is that LyX is intended for editing structured documents and
>it is wrong for LyX to be able to handle non-structured documents as
>well.
Therefore e.g. word2x is looking for hints in the *text* how it could
best structure a d
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I return here with the subject of importing-exporting word documents.
> The problem is: I need to import-export M$ Word documents since
> everybody else where I work uses this word proccessor, and I would
> like to have everybody working with LyX instead of M$ W
Hello all,
I have started a new "project" at CoSource.com. Its name is:
MS Word to LyX and LaTeX format and viceversa
If you want to contribute to this project follow the instructions
below (I explain this because the cosource pages are a bit tricky):
1) Go to the web page http:
word2x is so named because it is supposed easy to add other formats. One could
add a LyX output end fairly easily and I will take responisbility for porting
it to word2x 2.0 when that is ready. It would be enough of a feature to
trigger a new release :-) I am not familar enough with .lyx forma
> "Juergen" == Juergen Vigna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Would it be too much to hope that Corel and Sun/Staroffice would
>>> be willing to contribute? They have "the knowledge"... in that
>>> case, LGPL rather than GPL.
>> Yes, I could try and contact them. Before that maybe I can start
>> Would it be too much to hope that Corel and Sun/Staroffice would be willing to
>> contribute? They have "the knowledge"... in that case, LGPL rather than GPL.
>
> Yes, I could try and contact them. Before that maybe I can start the
> project in CoSource.com, maybe they can handle that.
>
As
On 20 Sep, Martin Vermeer wrote:
>> Would any of you be willing to pay to have this feature in LyX ?
>
> Yes, I would be willing to put in (a little) money.
>
> Using rtf is not a good idea IMHO. It would be if you could house-train Word
> users to export to it, but you can't :-(
OK, so the go
> Would any of you be willing to pay to have this feature in LyX ?
Yes, I would be willing to put in (a little) money.
Using rtf is not a good idea IMHO. It would be if you could house-train Word
users to export to it, but you can't :-(
There are already two projects along these lines:
- word
Hello all:
I return here with the subject of importing-exporting word documents.
The problem is: I need to import-export M$ Word documents since
everybody else where I work uses this word proccessor, and I would
like to have everybody working with LyX instead of M$ Word.
I tried to m
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