Dear Daniel,
On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Daniel Vainsencher <daniel.vainsenc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Please CC me on answers. > > I often collaborate with people who (still) prefer LaTeX, and also submit > papers to conferences that make it easy to submit latex via > style/class/sample.tex files. This makes it important to be able to work in > LyX, but debug/modify in latex, then continue working in LyX. > I would strongly agree with this. Round-tripping LyX <--> LaTeX documents is one of the long-term goals of LyX. And in my understanding this is something that lies in the realm of achievable. What we need is, mostly, for a devel or student to show more love to the tex2lyx conversion routines. > It would probably be difficult to preserve latex source formatting etc, and > I am not proposing that; I am assuming the main source of content is LyX. > > Two particular features would make this easier: > > - Math-macros, if turned into \global\long\def, should be turned back so > LyX's beautiful visual editing is restored (can keep the math-macro def in a > comment in the latex version and restore it). > BTW, when does a math-macro become a \newcommand vs \global\long\def? > > - Automatically generate styles for environments defined in imported > documents. For example if the imported latex has a keywords environment, > that should not suddenly become ERT in LyX. > This should allow me to start from the conference sample file, import it > into LyX, and obtain a first class lyx environment. > Both your suggestions look useful, although I'm wondering how achievable is the 2nd one. I'd love to hear what established devels think of this. Either way, I think this is a project worthy for GSoC and if you can come up with a suitably worded project proposal feel free to place it here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Devel/SummerOfCode2013Ideas (and let us know on lyx-devel). This would greatly increase the chances of a student picking it up. And if we have no student for such a project this year, we should certainly consider it for subsequent GSoC summers. Regards , Liviu
