can i get a link to the thread where discussion about the lyx chat client
is happening.
thnaks.
cheers,
Akshay
On 18 April 2013 13:31, Daniel Vainsencher <daniel.vainsenc...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 04/18/2013 07:58 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> I think roundtripping in particular will require working on the converters
> in both directions simultaneously, in particular for storing lyx
> information in latex comments and then parsing it (as in my math-macros
> suggestion).
>
> - 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.
>
> ... although I'm wondering how
> achievable is the 2nd one. I'd love to hear what established devels
> think of this.
>
> Me too: I am not technical enough about LyX and latex to know. Just to be
> clear, I am *not* proposing that LyX automatically customize how such
> environment look in LyX: just that \begin{theenv} ... \end{theenv} be
> converted into something like \begin_layout theenvLyxLayout ...
> \end_layout, with a minimal definition for the layout inserted into an
> appropriate definition file. I think the main requirements are that the
> content be editable as standard lyx (no ERT), and that the resulting latex
> on re-export is equivalent (turns back into a \begin{theenv} etc).
>
> This might also serve some of the same purposes as the layout file editor
> project, though neither seems to make the other redundant.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
> I have written an initial project description there. I would appreciate
> help fleshing out the features and knowledge requirements. Of course a
> precondition would be a technical mentor that knows LyX well enough to
> guide students (I would be glad to provide input from the requirements
> side).
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
