From lyx-users  Fri Feb 06 17:11:47 2009
From: Steve Litt <slitt () troubleshooters ! com>
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:11:47 +0000
To: lyx-users
Subject: Re: Strategies for Writing Co-operation with Non-LyX Users?
Message-Id: <200902061211.47757.slitt () troubleshooters ! com>
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On Friday 06 February 2009 11:46:21 am Richard Heck wrote:
> David Mertens wrote:
> >> It would be great if ... the .lxy document would be bundled with all
> >> images in a .zip file.
> >
> > Great idea, but not trivial.  Has this been discussed on the lists
> > before? If it has, I couldn't find it.
>
> A lot, but mostly on devel. There is, in fact, a script that lives (in
> svn) at development/tools/lyxpak.py that will take a LyX file and create
> a sort of "package" of everything it needs. So, in a way, we have this.
> What's never been agreed is how to have more: how to have a "bundled" or
> "embedded" LyX format that would be more like an OOo file, in that
> everything that was needed would be rolled up in one big piece.

Be careful what you wish for. Back in the 1990's I made all my tax worksheets 
in MS Word, with embedded Excel spreadsheets for calculations and charts.

Skip ahead a few years and somehow those embeds shifted so you couldn't see 
some of the columns. No problem, I'll just doubleclick and view them in 
Excel.

Ooops!, they won't run as Excel any more. They became just as useless over a 
few years as if they'd been left out in the rain to rust.

One of the things I've always loved about LyX is it always uses linking, and 
never embedding. Sure, embeddings easier to keep track of, but if it it 
corrupts a little, it corrupts absolutely.

SteveT

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