Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-26 Thread José Matos
On Monday 26 March 2007 3:24:15 pm Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > José Matos wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 March 2007 6:57:50 pm Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> Personally, I would try to implement the diff algorithm directly in > >> the core. Would it be so difficult? I have to admit that I do not know

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-26 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
José Matos wrote: On Wednesday 21 March 2007 6:57:50 pm Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Personally, I would try to implement the diff algorithm directly in the core. Would it be so difficult? I have to admit that I do not know the details of the algorithm. My feeling is that it will be easy to h

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-26 Thread José Matos
On Wednesday 21 March 2007 6:57:50 pm Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Personally, I would try to implement the diff algorithm directly in > the core. Would it be so difficult? I have to admit that I do not know > the details of the algorithm. My feeling is that it will be easy to have it outside,

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-24 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: "José" == José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: José> On Tuesday 20 March 2007 10:01:16 am John McCabe-Dansted wrote: It should be feasible to parse the output of diff and convert it to a Change Tracking enabled .lyx file. Any interest in such a converter? José>

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "José" == José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: José> On Tuesday 20 March 2007 10:01:16 am John McCabe-Dansted wrote: >> It should be feasible to parse the output of diff and convert it to >> a Change Tracking enabled .lyx file. Any interest in such a >> converter? José> Interest - yes, th

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-21 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 10:01:16 am John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > It should be feasible to parse the output of diff and convert it to a > Change Tracking enabled .lyx file. Any interest in such a converter? Interest - yes, this is a recurring theme, time to do it - no. :-) We have been discussing

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-20 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
An alternative would be to support an RCS format where everything is explicitly saved forever, so e.g. you not only know when the document You mean that kind of stuff when you sent out a contract proposal as .lyx file and the recipient is able to read all earlier versions when he looks on the f

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-17 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Andre Poenitz wrote: You mean that kind of stuff when you sent out a contract proposal as .lyx file and the recipient is able to read all earlier versions when he looks on the file with a text viewer? I like this idea. This reminds me pretty much of the only reason why I

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-16 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 10:03:14PM +0900, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > On 3/16/07, Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:51:24PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I have no problems with that as long as this is a concious decision of > >the user. However, having th

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-16 Thread Stephan Witt
John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > On 3/16/07, Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:51:24PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I have no problems with that as long as this is a concious decision of >> the user. However, having things like my user name and >> modification

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-16 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On 3/16/07, Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:51:24PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have no problems with that as long as this is a concious decision of the user. However, having things like my user name and modification/access date dumped silently into the f

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-16 Thread Helge Hafting
Andre Poenitz wrote: I have no problems with that as long as this is a concious decision of the user. However, having things like my user name and modification/access date dumped silently into the file is no option. Lyx already have tools->preferences->identity. Currently, you may enter a nam

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-16 Thread Georg Baum
Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:51:24PM +0100, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Metadata repository and search possibilities like Nepomuk are coming on >> the Linux Desktop. I think it will be important that LyX files can be >> easily indexed in these new systems. Therefore, we shou

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-15 Thread christian . ridderstrom
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Andre Poenitz wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:51:24PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andre Poenitz wrote: Think privacy. Now try again. You have all this metainformation fields in a pdf file. It is rather uninformative now then when you create a pdf file from LyX t

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-15 Thread Pavel Sanda
> Metadata repository and search possibilities like Nepomuk are coming on the > Linux Desktop. I think it will be important that LyX files can be easily > indexed in these new systems. Therefore, we should add metadata fields. For in such a case, these fields should be disabled by default (or fill

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:51:24PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > Think privacy. > > > > Now try again. > > You have all this metainformation fields in a pdf file. It is rather > uninformative now then when you create a pdf file from LyX the creator > field in the p

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-15 Thread cmiramon
Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Think privacy. > > Now try again. > You have all this metainformation fields in a pdf file. It is rather uninformative now then when you create a pdf file from LyX the creator field in the pdf file is 'TeX Metadata repository and search possibilities like Nepomuk ar

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-15 Thread Martin Vermeer
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 00:32 +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:35:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > * Date of creation > > * Last modified by > > * Last modified on the date... > > > > Checking in Open Office 1.1.5 (yes, it's old...), they show the following > > prope

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-14 Thread Bo Peng
> * Modified (date) > * Modified (person9 > * Last printout > * Editing time () Think privacy. Now try again. As long as the meta information is entered by user, there is no privacy problem. However, 1. You can use comments in preamble or even in main texts to achieve this. 2. I usually u

Re: Thought about the file format

2007-03-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:35:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * Date of creation > * Last modified by > * Last modified on the date... > > Checking in Open Office 1.1.5 (yes, it's old...), they show the following > properties for a MS Word document that I opened: > > * Created (date) > *

Thought about the file format

2007-03-14 Thread christian . ridderstrom
I just messed with some old LyX files, and for some reason I had four copies of the files. My problem was figuring out which file was more recent, but unfortunately I couldn't rely on the modification time from the file systems. This got me thinking. Wouldn't it be good to have some of kind of