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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: Alternative to individual embedding?
From:       Abdelrazak Younes <younes () lyx ! org>
Date:       2008-05-13 16:00:21
Message-ID: 4829BB15.60900 () lyx ! org
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Bo Peng wrote:
>>  If I think of openoffice zip file versus ms office
>>  filesystem-in-a-file, I know which one is easier to tinker with.
>>  Base64 may seem nice because it is text, but if child documents end up
>>  being in base64, all the interested of svn is lost, for example.
>>     
>
> We should choose a file format that serves LyX well. I agree with you
> that OOo format is better than MS format but this does not matter
> here. OOo/Word users *does not* use external files.
You surely meant "*most* users do not use external files". But this is 
of course possible and not very hard, at least for MS Word.

>  They do not have
> to work in unbundled mode, they do not have to unbundle.
Right, MSWord do not offer the possibilty to extract an embedded object. 
You have to use copy&paste.

Abdel.

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