On Feb 14, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Ralph Boland wrote:
I'm teaching a math class where the students use lyx to write down
their
ideas and proofs, and it would be nice to > have a way to use lyx
to post to
a discussion or write in a wiki.
This will be hard, because every Wiki has its own syntax. But for
MediaWiki, the engine that is used by the Wikipedia > and other
Wikis, you
can highlight formula part in LyX and copy/paste them to the Wiki.
This is
possible, because
MediaWiki uses LaTeX for typesetting formulas.
For more special applications, I would have a look of you find some
solution where you can use LaTeX. Then you
can simply copy/paste things from LyX's LateX output.
regards Uwe
I would like to see a wiki that uses Lyx as its editor.
Editing in Lyx is afterall, pretty simple for the most part.
Of course such a wiki would be limited to those who have Lyx
unless the wiki also supports simple text editing of simple text
submissions. I have not thought through what changes to Lyx
would be needed to support this.
Perhaps we could have a wiki for Lyx that works this way!?
I'd be willing to make a wiki for my open source project
that works this way, once it is ready for release, but alas,
at the current rate of progress, that will be years from now.
Ralph Boland
There has been some discussion of this topic in this forum from time
to time. The tricky (well perhaps not tricky, but at least very time
consuming) part is writing the import/export filters for the wiki
syntax. I use mediawiki with emacs to edit pages, and use LyX to
quickly generate the LaTeX code for equations. A bit tedious, but it
seems to work well...
