Hello,
Also speaking like Martin Vermeer from a user point of view on Qt/LyX. If LyX
starts using the Qt Library and switch to a XML-style format we could reuse the
new RichText drawing and editing engine Reginald Stadlbauer is coding for KWord
and Qt 3.0 (see http://lists.kde.org/?l=koffice-devel&m=97337143124867&w=2)
I've looked at the Qt 2.2 documentation, the actual Richttext engine with an
appropriate stylesheet looks like it could easily out-of-the-box support the LyX
format except footnotes, hfill, commentaries... It has also have logical
character styles support.
The new engine Reggie is planning will have :
-Unicode fonts
-right-to-left and bidi editing
-zooming
-native import and export to HTML (meaning better cut and paste between LyX and
other applications !!)
- Maybe more... (an outlining mode would be nice)
The possibility in the next Kde to dock part of the Gui dialogs could also be
nice for the LyX Interface. On a notebook you could dock the lists of paragraph
styles and character styles and have the rest of the screen real-estate for
editing your file without any need for a toolbar. IMHO that would be quite
elegant.
Just my two francs...
Cheers,
Charles
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Charles de Miramon
Centre de Recherches Historiques
Laboratoire E.H.E.S.S. - C.N.R.S.
54, bd Raspail
75270 Paris Cedex 06
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