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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX
From:       rgheck <rgheck () bobjweil ! com>
Date:       2009-04-29 14:31:24
Message-ID: 49F864BC.20505 () bobjweil ! com
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Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Jürgen Spitzmüller <j.spitzmueller@gmx.de> writes:
>   
>> Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Well, if you don't want eLyXers to stay a single-person project I'd
>>> advocate integrating into LyX proper. For example the csv2lyx script was
>>> looked at, optimized and cleaned up a lot by other developers as soon as
>>> it was integrated into LyX.
>>>       
>> In any case, it might be a good idea to integrate it a bit more in one way 
>> or the other (for instance, connect it with lyx2lyx to maintain version 
>> changes).
>>     
>
> Integration with lyx2lyx is a must IMO, since it will ensure that it
> still works if the LyX format is updated. This means that we do not have
> to rely on proper maintenance of eLyXer before a release.
>
>   
I don't see how this is possible. I have looked at the code, and it is 
very dependent upon the file format of 1.6.x. Of course, you could 
always export the 2.0.svn format to 1.6 and run eLyXer on that, but then 
you lose all the new features.

rh

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