Re: feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 01/11/2010 14:16, Yann Disser a écrit : Well, as I said, with automatic sync I do not think it would be so much of a nightmare anymore. And, for me at least, editing formula-heavy .tex is also not very enjoyable. A typical example of when tex<->lyx breaks with formulas is when people use ``h

Re: feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-02 Thread Jim Oldfield
> > I agree it would be nice. But it's almost impossible. The problem is that > (La)TeX provides multiple ways (packages) for achieving the same thing. LyX > will never be able to support them all, so either your LaTeX collaborators > will needs to know what LyX supports (which is not what t

Re: feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-02 Thread Yann Disser
On 1. Nov 2010, at 14:22, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Yann Disser wrote: >> Your arguments make sense. However, I think many people must have my >> problem. Perhaps it would be sufficient to provide a way to keep the .lyx >> file and the .tex file in sync. Whenever one of the two would get change

Re: feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-01 Thread Julien Rioux
On 01/11/2010 9:02 AM, Yann Disser wrote: On 1. Nov 2010, at 14:42, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Yann Disser wrote: I wish I had time to help you with that (sounds like fun ;-) )... Perhaps sometime in the future. Don't count on it. We have many reasons for not using the tex file format native

Re: feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-01 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > A slightly simpler problem is to allow users to modify the generated > preamble. Sort of the same problem, but simpler and useful as well. I use the attached lyxpp.py. To use 0) Put lyxpp.py in the path. 1) Set the LaTeX (pdflatex)

Re: feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-01 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/01/2010 09:16 AM, Yann Disser wrote: On 1. Nov 2010, at 14:09, Pavel Sanda wrote: Yann Disser wrote: Your arguments make sense. However, I think many people must have my problem. Perhaps it would be sufficient to provide a way to keep the .lyx file and the .tex file in sync.

Re: feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-01 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/01/2010 09:16 AM, Yann Disser wrote: On 1. Nov 2010, at 14:09, Pavel Sanda wrote: Yann Disser wrote: Your arguments make sense. However, I think many people must have my problem. Perhaps it would be sufficient to provide a way to keep the .lyx file and the .tex file in sync.

Re: feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Yann Disser wrote: > Your arguments make sense. However, I think many people must have my > problem. Perhaps it would be sufficient to provide a way to keep the .lyx > file and the .tex file in sync. Whenever one of the two would get changed, > lyx would automatically import/export. This approach w

Re: feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-01 Thread Yann Disser
On 1. Nov 2010, at 14:09, Pavel Sanda wrote: > Yann Disser wrote: >> Your arguments make sense. However, I think many people must have my >> problem. Perhaps it would be sufficient to provide a way to keep the .lyx >> file and the .tex file in sync. Whenever one of the two would get changed, >

Re: feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-01 Thread Pavel Sanda
Yann Disser wrote: > Your arguments make sense. However, I think many people must have my problem. > Perhaps it would be sufficient to provide a way to keep the .lyx file and the > .tex file in sync. Whenever one of the two would get changed, lyx would > automatically import/export. This approac

Re: feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-01 Thread Yann Disser
On 1. Nov 2010, at 14:42, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Yann Disser wrote: >> I wish I had time to help you with that (sounds like fun ;-) )... Perhaps >> sometime in the future. > > Don't count on it. We have many reasons for not using the tex file format > natively. For instance, LyX is storin

Re: feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-01 Thread Vincent van Ravesteijn
A slightly simpler problem is to allow users to modify the generated preamble. Sort of the same problem, but simpler and useful as well. Op 1 nov 2010 13:39 schreef "Yann Disser" : On 1. Nov 2010, at 13:19, Richard Heck wrote: > On 11/01/2010 07:56 AM, Yann Disser wrote: >> >> ... I wish I had

Re: feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Yann Disser wrote: > I wish I had time to help you with that (sounds like fun ;-) )... Perhaps > sometime in the future. Don't count on it. We have many reasons for not using the tex file format natively. For instance, LyX is storing some information for which no tex syntax exists (and which do

Re: feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-01 Thread Yann Disser
On 1. Nov 2010, at 13:19, Richard Heck wrote: > On 11/01/2010 07:56 AM, Yann Disser wrote: >> >> Thanks for your reply. I am sorry for duplicating a feature request, I did >> not take the time to look through existing ones... >> > Not a problem. I just meant it wasn't something we'd overlooked

Re: feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-01 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/01/2010 07:56 AM, Yann Disser wrote: Thanks for your reply. I am sorry for duplicating a feature request, I did not take the time to look through existing ones... Not a problem. I just meant it wasn't something we'd overlooked. I hope that eventually somebody will implement it, though

Re: feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-01 Thread Richard Heck
On 11/01/2010 05:38 AM, Yann Disser wrote: Hi everybody. I do not know where to post a feature request, so I send it to this list -- hope that's ok. I use LyX every day at work (doing my PhD), and I am really really happy with it! There is one thing I am missing though, since I collaborate a

Re: feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-01 Thread Yann Disser
On 1. Nov 2010, at 12:51, Richard Heck wrote: > On 11/01/2010 05:38 AM, Yann Disser wrote: >> Hi everybody. >> >> I do not know where to post a feature request, so I send it to this list -- >> hope that's ok. >> >> I use LyX every day at work (doing my PhD), and I am really really happy >> wit

feature request: edit tex files

2010-11-01 Thread Yann Disser
Hi everybody. I do not know where to post a feature request, so I send it to this list -- hope that's ok. I use LyX every day at work (doing my PhD), and I am really really happy with it! There is one thing I am missing though, since I collaborate a lot with people that I cannot convince to u