On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Trevor Jenkins <bslwann...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> > wrote: > > On Monday 22 March 2010 17:43:10 Julio Rojas wrote: > >> The only feature I miss is a layout editor. I don't know how easy > >> would it be to program one, but that would be one good addition. > > > > It's hard Julio. It's hard enough that I couldn't even *specify* a layout > > editor, though I tried. If I'd been able to specify one, I'd have either > > pestered the LyX crew to write it, or written it myself in Perl/Tk (I'm > not > > much of a Qt type of guy). > > It would be a useful feature to have and something that I've looked > for in the TeX/LaTeX environment for decades. Simple word processors > achieve it by allowing documents to be created as templates. So it is > a real shame that TeX has never had anything equivalent other than > trial and error. > > > I'm thinking the best way to address the difficulty of new environments > and > > character styles might be to start a public collection of them. ... > > Don't we already have that with the CTAN archive? Why create a > separate LyX one when the LaTeX part of CTAN already exists? > > > Wordperfect and MSWord have layout editors of sorts, but their tags are > sooooo > > much simpler than LaTeX. > > And doesn't Scribus (as a DTP package using XML) have a layout editor. > I agree that there are MANY different options for formating, but couldn't one start with a basic layout editors, which only include a subset of the formating options, namely the ones which are mainly used for paragraph styles? In this case, one might be able to limit the number of formating options to e.g. 10, and if further fine-tuning is necessaary, it needs to be done by hand (in a kind of ert box in LyX) in the editor. Together with a display on how the format would look, that would be brilliant. Rainer > > Regards, Trevor. > > <>< Re: deemed! > -- NEW GERMAN FAX NUMBER!!! Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax: +27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax: +49 - (0)321 2125 2244 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug Google: r.m.k...@gmail.com
