-This is part of a private discussion I had with John Collins, the author
+This is part of a private discussion I had with John Collins, the author
of the first LaTeX2LyX conversor. Attached is also a document describing his
ideas about the subject. Such ideas could be useful for our project.
[Removed non-related stuff, AAS]
-I am not convinced devising a lyx format as a subset of latex is ideal.
+I am not convinced devising a lyx format as a subset of latex is ideal.
It would take some time to explain my thoughts. But the problem I see
with latex is that its syntax is not pleasant, so that it is relatively
time-consuming and/or memory intensive to parse it. Most importantly from
just a file format, or will it also be used for the representation of a
document in memory? If the latter is true, then I would particularly stay
away from a directly latex based format. A file format could be closer to
-latex, since it might need to read by humans.
+latex, since it might need to read by humans.
But you have obviously thought about the issue and have come to different
-conclusions.
+conclusions.
My experience in writing ET convinced me that a good internal format is
important to speed and to robustness. ET will run with good speed on an