Hi Jicksy,
welcome to LyX! It's great to hear you are interested in the round trip conversion project. There is currently an intense and ongoing discussion about the project on the lyx-developers list. See [1]. That is a good starting point on the current state of the project and the various design decisions the developers are considering. As for getting familiar with LyX i ngeneral and with its code base in particular, I would recommend installing LyX (and TeX distribution such as TeXLive or MikTex, depending on your platform) and getting used to the program as a user. If you're not familiar with LyX I would suggest going though the Tutorial (available from the Help Menu) and taking a look at the User's guide (from the same menu). As for LaTex, this project requires at least a basic undestanding of what LaTex is, how it interacts with LyX on the one hand and with the Tex engine(s) on the other hand. If you've never used LaTeX before, I would recommend looking at "The not so Short Guide to LaTeX" which is available in every Tex distribution (search for lshort.pdf on your hard drive after you have installed TeX, or type "texdoc lshort" in a terminal if you are on linux). Once you have a general understanding of how LyX works and interacts with LaTeX, I would recommend looking at the bug tracker [2] as a way to get familiar with the code base. In particular, search for bugs marked "easyfix" and see if you can contribute a patch. And do not hesitate to ask questions on the Lyx-devel list! Cheers, Stefano [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg182374.html [2] http://www.lyx.org/trac/wiki/BugTrackerHome On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Jicksy John <jicksy.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi :) > > I got interested in the Round Trip Conversion project (between LyX and > .docx) formats. > > Would like to know as to how I am supposed to make my earlier contribution. > > Thank you :) > > > -- > Jicksy John > Student > College of Engineering,Chengannur -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
