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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: Alternative to individual embedding?
From:       Richard Heck <rgheck () bobjweil ! com>
Date:       2008-05-13 17:15:29
Message-ID: 4829CCB1.107 () bobjweil ! com
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Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> 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.
>
And I find this a red herring. The implementation I've proposed allows 
you to "work with external files" in the sense that the "internal" files 
are still linked to the "external" files in a way that allows the former 
to be updated from the latter. I'm not sure what more one would want. We 
could even have an "auto-update" flag that would, well, do the updates 
automatically.

rh

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