Stefano, I am familiar with LaTeX, been using it for submitting Reports and for making Resume.
LyX is now installed- will go through the documentation to get further hold of the things in there. You summed up things in a easy manner. Thanks would try to reach till bug fix soon enough and get back if I encounter any doubts on the path. Thank you Jicksy On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 11:20 PM, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com > wrote: > 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 > -- Jicksy John Student College of Engineering,Chengannur
