Re: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.

2010-02-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 2 févr. 10 à 19:57, Tommaso Cucinotta a écrit : It might (just might) be for different use-case scenarios: if you have those very long, specially formatted equations, which you want to keep into their separate files (perhaps also for avoiding to modify them by mistake -- or because they'r

Re: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.

2010-02-02 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: As far as I understand, the main point is to have the preview, right? Since this does not use the file conversion stuff from insetexternal, I'd prefer indeed to have InsetPreview (or preview of ert) for these kind of uses. I am not sure we want to advertise many way

RE: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.

2010-02-02 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn - TNW
>I heard Vincent has an upcoming InsetPreview feature which I don't exactly >know how would relate to this, perhaps both things may be worth to exist. > Well, everything inside this Inset will get previewed. So if you put your equation into an ert into this inset it will generate a preview of the

Re: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.

2010-02-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 2 févr. 10 à 02:38, Tommaso Cucinotta a écrit : This may be useful, for example, in case of mixed latex/lyx fans working at a paper, or for importing maths written previously in LaTeX keeping the original formatting/comments in a separate file. I heard Vincent has an upcoming InsetPreview

Re: Editing equations as latex rather than graphically.

2010-02-01 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Posting here as well: a user raised on lyx-users the issue to have a text-based editor for mathematical equations, and the attached patch just handles this scenario as one more type of external-material that you can insert by using Insert->File->External Material, and select "Equation (LaTeX)",