Il 05/03/2011 22:00, Liviu Andronic ha scritto:
Another idea for a project would be developing a layout editor. I'm
pretty sure that a large part of the community dreams of one, and as
many would-be-switchers-to-LyX seek one. The idea has been discussed
at lengths in the past, and the best specs were provided by Helge [1]
several years ago,
Hello,
AFAICS, the task of editing styles in LyX implies 2 different tasks:
1) editing a latex style (.sty, .bst, ...), which decides what exactly
gets printed/pdf-ed
2) editing a layout style, which decides what exactly gets on-screen
... and perhaps adds some more stuff into what gets printed/pdf-ed
(I'm not even sure about this)
I'd like simply to point out that, one way to make the proposal for GSoC
more appealing and with a wider scope, might be the one to keep at
least the possibility to edit/customize latex styles separated and clearly
highlighted. I mean, non-necessarily tie the proposed editor exclusively
to lyx usage, but target the much wider LaTeX community.
This can even constitute an opportunity for widening the LyX community.
For example, what if the latex style (and lyx layout) editor were LyX
itself ?
I can easily imagine a style-editor mode in which you can drag'n'drop
[or insert numerically] the paragraph indentations or the line spacing among
lines, before or after headings, floats margins, page margins, etc.. Also,
the basic engine for customizing fonts is already there (right-click ->
par/style
settings ...), but in style-editing mode they might actually edit the style.
I know, this sounds much more M$/OO-ish and less excel-sheet-ish, but I also
think/hope it sounds probably more appealing/challenging to realize for
a student.
Also, perhaps a direct converter (ok, loosing something...) from OO document
templates to .sty & layouts might not be to be under-evaluated. After
all, there's
already a graphical editor in OO. And actually in many projects we have
the need
to re-generate these templates for at least Word 200x, Word 200y,
OpenOffice,
latex because each research group likes its own way to work.
Just my 2 cents.
Bye,
T.
