On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 12:14 -0400, Richard Heck wrote:
> Personally, I think something like this would be excellent, if you could 
> pull it off. There has been a lot of work in trunk that has vastly 
> improved beamer support and which would presumably help a lot.

Great! Is there a developer who worked more than others on beamer?

> I wonder if it would be possible to get the HTML source for the slide 
> and use that?

Mh, not sure about that, we could do something like that but we'd need
QtWebKit, which is a quite heavy dependency. 

> Beamer themes are generally found in certain standard locations. Since 
> LyX knows about all the style files that are installed (we display them 
> at Tools>TeX Information), it would be easy enough to find the beamer 
> styles and let people choose one.

Perfect then. However I also want to offer the ability to manually point
to theme file, as actually I'm not a real fan of beamer's standard
themes. :)

> If you wanted to do this, then I'd suggest going for something more 
> general: A kind of dialog that would allow one to control options to any 
> paragraph layout. One could add this to the exiting Paragraph Settings 
> dialog, and have which options are available be controlled through the 
> layout files themselves.

Sounds good, I just have to take a look at layout files because honestly
I've never messed with them.

> It is obviously a big plus if you don't have to learn the codebase from 
> scratch.

Thanks for your answer.

On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 11:49 -0700, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> Finally :) P

;)

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