On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Andrew Parsloe <apars...@clear.net.nz>wrote:
> I don't recall seeing any mention of LaTeX3 on either developers or users > lists over the decade I've been following them. I "discovered" LaTeX3 last > year and was struck by how much easier it is to code in TeX using the expl3 > language of LaTeX3 rather than directly in TeX/LaTeX2e, and also by the > potential for LyX development in LaTeX3 packages like xparse (for the > treatment of arguments in insets), and xtemplate (underlying a future LyX > layout editor perhaps?). > > There is currently a discussion taking place on the LaTeX3 mailing list > about graphical front ends to LaTeX3 in which LyX has been mentioned a > number of times (generally to be dismissed as not quite "cutting the > mustard"). It started with > > Sean Allred "Feasibility of GUIs for authors and class designers in > LaTeX3" (28/01/2014) on late...@listserv.uni-heidelberg.de > > and has had a number of responses since, including from Frank Mittelbach. > (Registering for this list is a bit fiddly.) > > Andrew > > PS I dream, years hence, of LyX 3 embodying LaTeX3 in much the way that > LyX 2 embodies LaTeX2e now, and then come to my senses with a start when I > realise that LyX 2.1.0 is still only a gleam in the eyes of its developers. > > I'm trying to read into LaTeX3 but if someone could give me a summary on what this could mean for LyX, I would be happy. Maybe it would be a good Google Summer of Code project to make an initial support of LaTeX3 ?? Anyone that want to compose a description for the project ? Any mentor for such a project ? Vincent
