Thank you for your responses. 2013/4/23 Rainer M. Krug <rai...@krugs.de>: > interesting idea. I neither use nor know it enough to give comments on > it itself, but I would like to pint out a few aspects which would be > very useful for LyX: > > 1) the showing of error messages is very useful for many text based > graphics. You mention tikz: I think that is reasonably widely used within > LyX, so that a better integration would be useful and would likely find > supporters.
Yes, I con work on integration of tikz, it shouln't be a problem. > 2) integration into LyX: I would think about the converters or in > instant preview where this could fit in. I'm not quite sure how this could be integrated into LyX. Would you be able to give me some more advice on this please? > 3) I am using e.g. plantuml [1] to generate graphs - would it be > possible to abstract your program to such an extent that it would use > that as well? I think, that this would be possible. > I am not familiar with MetaPost, but your project sounds > interesting. Is the code for your tool already available? Note that > your code must be released under one of the GSoC-approved open source > licenses to be acceptable for GSoC. My code is already available on https://github.com/metaviewproject Note that it is only a very first version with puprose to show how the application will approximately look like. > To get support from the LyX community, you may consider integration of > your tool into LyX as the summer project. That ensures a strong link > to LyX. Other ideas are of course also welcome, as long as they are > feasible within 2 - 3 months and have a clear project plan. I going to write a proposal. The last think I need to think of is integration into LyX. I'm not quite sure how to do this. Would you be able to give me some advice on this please? Thank you Peter Zeman
