On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 09:26 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> Bo Peng a écrit :
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > Playing with the view-source dialog (it is great fun), I can not help
> > thinking whether or not we can achieve something similar to
> > dreamweaver's dual view feature. That is to say, what is typed in the
> > lyx window shows automatically (and dynamically) in the source window
> > (has been done), and what is typed in the source window automatically
> > appears in the main window. The later sounds very difficult but if we
> > add a few restrictions that help user specify ERT etc, and allow only
> > basic commands, it may be doable. After all, we have been importing
> > large latex files.
> > 
> > This provides a potentially very powerful input method. Latex veterans
> > will like this feature, Lyx, in general, is not designed for such
> > things though.
> > 
> > Will this worth pursuing?
> 
> IMHO, if we limit that to math, this is would be a very powerful and 
> welcome feature. The math latex subset is known in part or in in full 
> even by non-latex expert. As lyx does already use this subset as is. It 
> does not require any back and forth transformation :-)
> I envision a generalized math dock widget that would merge the math 
> panel, the math toolbar and this new math edit box. See how OpenOffice 
> is doing that for an example.

Yes... but in a way we have that already. We have math preview, and
Andre at some point had the ability to edit raw math in a math inset
(where did that code go?)

- Martin

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