On 2011-12-04, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta <tomm...@lyx.org> wrote: >> Il 04/12/2011 06:45, Liviu Andronic ha scritto: >>> Wouldn't a chat be overkill for LyX? I never quite needed this, but >>> wouldn't it suffice to chat/talk via Pidgin/Skype and work in LyX?
>> Depends on what you're writing of course. While working with remote >> coauthors, I found quite a number of times ourselves dropping maths over the >> Skype chat, and it would just be great if those maths were rendered on the >> screen by LyX. I find rendering the emoticons as graphics as quite useless >> instead, but it's probably just me :-) . . . > I see: this is a real need then. > However, I think that it makes more sense to have 'pidgin-lyx' plugin > than adding chatting capabilities to LyX. A quick internet search > pointed to an existing 'pidgin-latex' plugin [1]. I guess that this > could be readily used to paste math copied from LyX. > [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin-latex/ You can also use LyX as a front end displaying LaTeX math via the lyxserver pipes. Günter
