"Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Dear list,
|
| After some more thoughts, I plan to implement this feature like the
| following. Comments are welcome.
|
| 1. An on/off menu under "view" called "view latex for selected text"
| or simply "view latex". It will be enabled with a valid latex document
| . Support for docbook etc may be pending.
|
| 2. When a piece of code is selected, a window is displayed with the
| latex code of the selected paragraphs. This window will be updated
| with the next selection event, and close when "view" -> 'view latex'
| is turned off.
|
| Rationals:
|
| 1. This will be a great feature to learn latex,
|
| 2. This will make debugging of latex-related errors much easier. For
| example, today, I copy/paste a *centered* figure into a table and get
| a latex error. Only after I look up the latex export did I find out
| the problem.
|
| 3. view-latex will be a more frequent event than view->pdf etc so I do
| not want to call an external viewer.
|
| 4. It is tempting to update latex code at each key stroke but that
| will be too expensive. Select event seems to be a better choice.
One (semi-) bad thing though... we (perhaps only I) have for some time
been trying to move us away from the (La)TeX centric approach. And
begin to view TeX as just the typesetter, nothing fundamental to LyX.
With a feature like this (No, I won't try to stop it), you make the
coupling towards (La)TeX stronger again.
--
Lgb
