Michael Wojcik wrote:
rgheck wrote:
nisa wrote:
how math editor is implemented in lyx?
how does it automatically format text? pls tell the technical aspects
of it in the coding part etc ....
Why would you think this was simple enough to be explained in an email
message?
Now that part is complicated! You can see it here:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/browser/lyx-devel/trunk/src/mathed. Not many
of us developers even understand it, though. Andre Poenitz is the
master....
I just browsed a bit of it, and it doesn't look all that hard. Basically
a polymorphic model/view system where each sort of math object knows how
to render itself, which is what I'd expect. That's a standard idiom -
it's the main example in the original Gang of Four _Design Patterns_
book, after all.
I'd think someone with decent C++ knowledge and a reasonable grasp of
software design could figure the architecture out with a little browsing
through the code and perhaps following a few examples through the
debugger. (Which is not to say anything against any of the LyX
developers - I don't see why anyone would do that unless they need to
know how it works. I'm sure all of you *could* if you felt the need.)
Or am I missing something? I only read through four or five source files.
I don't think you missed anything. And we'd be delighted to have you
within the development team :-)
Abdel.
