On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn <v...@lyx.org> wrote: > > > > 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. > See also the following for a relevant discussion: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/158524/about-the-features-of-latex3 http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/117984/using-latex3s-xtemplate?lq=1
Liviu > 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 > > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
