On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 07:16:14PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > One thing that I am aware of is the math editor. BTW, as is often the > case with Free Software, one question for which the answer would > interest me is in what degree it might be possible to rip it off as a > component to be used in separate environments: click on a formula in > Emacs, get a LyX formula editor fired up, perhaps in a different > window (embedding into an Emacs window would be cool, but probably > unrealistic), edit and then have the formula integrated back into the > buffer. Of course, this would probably be non-nice if it implies > LaTeX import and reexport, losing all formatting and probably > hand-adjustments in spacing and stuff.
Currently mathed ignores spaces used for formatting only on "LaTeX import" and does not write any on export, so any formatting done by the user is lost. It would not be too difficult to add "imostly invisible spaces and carriage returns", though. Concerning "stand alone mathed": Not exactly trivial. While mathed itself is modular, it uses "standard LyX methods" for interaction with the user (key bindings, mouseclicks, drawing). > I am digressing. Obviously, the math editor will be a big starting > help for some users. What other features would you find worth having > pointed out (apart from preview-LyX, in case it gets into a > demonstratable state by conference time, or at least into a stage > where one can be reasonably sure that its implementation will get > followed through eventually)? Including external stuff like graphics has become easy lately... > The talk focuses about WYSIWYG aspects of editing, but if there are > particular other advantages to using LyX not immediately connected > with that aspect, I might squeeze them in. > > In due time for the conference, I will ask again here about what > version I should use for demonstrations: it should be a reasonably > stable version as long as all features to be demonstrated can be made > to work with it. September will be a bad point of time... 1.2.x won't contain any traces of "preview LyX", so I guess your best bet would be to use some version from CVS from July or so. CVS, in turn, will probably be completely broken by September, as everybody will put the patches that piled up during the 1.2.0 freeze. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
