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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: Alternative to individual embedding?
From:       Abdelrazak Younes <younes () lyx ! org>
Date:       2008-05-13 17:18:13
Message-ID: 4829CD55.3010301 () lyx ! org
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Richard Heck wrote:
> 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.
"auto-update" would be interesting.

Abdel.

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