Re: Fwd: Re: Fwd: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-30 Thread PhilipPirrip
One thing that bothers me is how easy the users would screw up their documents by using layout editor. Consider this case: a document has fifty flex inserts named "beautiful green". Using the layout editor, user who knows just a little about layouts changes only the name of the flex, say to "old

Fwd: Re: Fwd: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-30 Thread Helge Hafting
On 20. april 2013 23:08, Liviu Andronic wrote: Helge, Pavel, Do you think you could take a look at this student's proposal and give some feedback? Ok, here are some ideas: The point of a "layout editor" is to be simpler than actually editing .layout files. * The user should not need any kn

Re: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-27 Thread Mayank Jha
I have submitted this on the melange, please have a look! Mentors please suggest any changes if required!

Re: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-24 Thread Mayank Jha
***Myself* - *Name :* Mayank Jha - *University / current enrollment* : NIT Durgapur, India - *Contact details: *mayank25080...@gmail.com, GMT(+5.30), IRC nick: mapyth - *Short bio / overview of my background* : I am a 2nd year undergraduate student pursuing Comp

Re: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-24 Thread Mayank Jha
Final draft for GSoC *Myself* - *Name :* Mayank Jha - *University / current enrollment* : NIT Durgapur, India - *Contact details: *mayank25080...@gmail.com, GMT(+5.30), IRC nick: mapyth - *Short bio / overview of my background* : I am a 2nd year undergraduate s

Re: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-23 Thread Mayank Jha
Thanks for the review. Well, on the manner in which Lyx will store the information, I think making a new class LayoutElements and the Layout Editor could be viewed as an instance of the same, can be one solution to the problem. What goes inside this class is determined largely by the manner in whic

Re: Fwd: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-21 Thread Mayank Jha
Thanks for the review. Well, on the manner in which Lyx will store the information, I think making a new class LayoutElements and the Layout Editor could be viewed as an instance of the same, can be one solution to the problem. What goes inside this class is determined largely by the manner in whic

Re: Fwd: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-21 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/20/2013 05:08 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: Helge, Pavel, Do you think you could take a look at this student's proposal and give some feedback? This looks pretty sensible to me. A few comments below. I think I have a rough idea as to how can we implement the layout editor, in Lyx I have mad

Re: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-20 Thread Mayank Jha
Mentors please reply!!

Re: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-20 Thread Mayank Jha
I think I have a rough idea as to how can we implement the layout editor, in Lyx I have made a Qt prototype http://postimg.org/image/j9g22xphx/ described as below! **GUI*** Available Additions : A QComboBox used to choose from a list of available options "ClassOptions" , "Paragraph

Re: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-18 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Mayank Jha wrote: >>> Thanks for referring me to the mailing-list history page! >>> We would need a GUI interface which allows one to create docum

Re: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-18 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Mayank Jha wrote: >> Thanks for referring me to the mailing-list history page! >> We would need a GUI interface which allows one to create document classes >> from the Latex classes without any prior know

Re: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-18 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Mayank Jha wrote: > Thanks for referring me to the mailing-list history page! > We would need a GUI interface which allows one to create document classes > from the Latex classes without any prior knowledge of Latex or .layout files > and at the same time enabli

Re: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-18 Thread Mayank Jha
Thanks for referring me to the mailing-list history page! I cloned the latest git repo and compiled it. After going through the User Manual, I seemed to get a rough idea as to what would we be needing! We would need a GUI interface which allows one to create document classes from the Latex classes

Re: GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-18 Thread stefano franchi
Hi Mayank, welcome to the LyX community! You can find some specs on how to go about the Layout editor in this thread: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org/msg144165.html Also, you may want to search the recent discussions (last couple of weeks) on the lyx-devel list. Feel free to

GSoC idea for Layout Editor

2013-04-18 Thread Mayank Jha
Hello everyone, I am Mayank Jha, a student of NIT Durgapur, India pursuing Computer Science and Engineering currently in the second year. am really interested into doing a project involving Qt, QML. I am well-versed in C,C++. Have a first hand knowledge of Python,Qt and HTML. I strongly believe in