Dear Alex, Welcome to LyX.
On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Alexander Nord <an...@reed.edu> wrote: > I'm Alex. I'm a junior at Reed College in Portland, OR. > > I think what you guys are doing sounds awesome, and I'd love to apply to > take on the > "Layout Editor" project. I've never done GSoC (or, for that matter any > Simply to point out, many of the LyX users would love to have a Layout Editor available. Personally I'm very much looking forward to this project. In addition to Jacob's suggestions, I would like to point you to our Mailing List archives. The design for a LE has already been discussed several times on the list, but this specific input from Helge is very valuable: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg144165.html It provides for a rather complete list of specs that a LE would need to support. > professional > programming) before, and I'm feeling a little daunted approaching the > application process, > so any advice on how to get my application rolling would be enormously > appreciated! > To apply to GSoC 2013 for a project related to LyX please follow the application procedure outlined here: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/org/google/gsoc2013/lyx . Feel free to ask on lyx-devel any specific questions related to your application. Regards, Liviu