On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Guenter Milde <mi...@users.sf.net> wrote: > On 2015-06-10, Benedict Holland wrote: > >> Since there are already excellent Latex editors, I don't >> understand why it would be desirable for Lyx to incorporate such features. > > I love LyX, because I can input math from the keyboard, without click and > search in menus and dragging around - just using familiar LaTeX syntax. > > The same would apply for many smaller edits (font changes, package > insertions, ...): if the source view were edible, I could do many of > these changes fast and per keyboard without searching in menus or the > shortkey-list. > Maybe some sort of math-like tab-activated completion could be implemented, for commands that LyX supports natively... There'd be less scope for getting it wrong in such a set-up.
So something along the lines of: - activate math-like completion as in "\" - propose a list of completion possibilities given an exclusive list of commands that LyX understands and supports natively - run tex2lyx on the input when user signals they're done - if something didn't go to plan, spit out ERT But I expect this wouldn't be a trivial implementation to get everything right and cover all potential complications... Liviu > (Of course, this is from the view point of someone familiar with LaTeX - but > this is a large part of the LyX user base.) > > Günter > -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
