Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
While we are talking about roundtrip - there is still the dreaded issue of MS Word (docx) roundtrip. There is again and again the discussion coming up of exporting to docx and importing docx, and (especially in the humanities as I gather from these discussions) many journals only accept doc / docx for submission. Not only the journals, but the use of LateX and LyX is not that widespread (as it should be!) in academia in general (some natural science disciplines excluded). So to make co-operation with MS Word users possible, an improved export to docx and round trip would be very useful. Also, I would assume that this feature would make LyX much more widely used. Cheers, Rainer > > Regards , > Liviu -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
