Re: word processor document format: what parts?

[larsbj ifi uio no (Lars Gullik Bjønnes)]

  >> Keith Wright writes:

[...]
  KW> Final thought: Hasn't LyX been down this road before? What does
  KW> it take to substitute XML for LaTeX? The TeX language suffers
  KW> from a macro system that mixes the content with the style sheet
  KW> and with rude hacking. LaTeX fixes that somewhat. Despite such
  KW> room for improvement in the input language, the end result is
  KW> _excellent_, and I don't think you can come close to that
  KW> quality without another Knuth ready to put another twenty years
  KW> into it. I'd hate to throw it away and start over.

We (the LyX Team) has not put much thought into XML, but we certainly
want LyX to be able to write docbook.

We are also looking for gtk/Gnome programmers that could help on
making a port to gtk/Gnome.

So far we have only had people saying that a gtk port would be nice
but none offering to do any programming on it.

	Lgb