Re: lyx as an equation editor

2011-10-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Liviu Andronic wrote: Dear all This request comes up every now and then, and was even part of our aborted GSoC 2011. i have working patch which makes lyx to be equation editor and use it together with maxima as a variant of simple calculator with nice rendering of fractions etc. iirc i have

Re: lyx as an equation editor

2011-10-08 Thread Pavel Sanda
Liviu Andronic wrote: > Dear all > This request comes up every now and then, and was even part of our > aborted GSoC 2011. i have working patch which makes lyx to be equation editor and use it together with maxima as a variant of simple calculator with nice rendering of fractions etc

Re: lyx as an equation editor

2011-10-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-06, Liviu Andronic wrote: But I was wondering whether there was a simple solution to this, namely re-using the Instant Preview machinery. I am not familiar with it's internals, but I understand that to display the LaTeX results the IP uses the 'preview' package to generate images

Re: lyx as an equation editor

2011-10-07 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.de wrote: Would this require that Instant Preview is on? (I have it always off.) If we can perform it automatically, when IP is on, we should be able to do this on-demand, when selecting an entry in the c-menu. Granted, the user

Re: lyx as an equation editor

2011-10-07 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2011-10-06, Liviu Andronic wrote: > But I was wondering whether there was a simple solution to this, > namely re-using the Instant Preview machinery. I am not familiar with > it's internals, but I understand that to display the LaTeX results the > IP uses the 'preview' package to generate

Re: lyx as an equation editor

2011-10-07 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: > Would this require that Instant Preview is on? (I have it always off.) > If we can perform it automatically, when IP is on, we should be able to do this on-demand, when selecting an entry in the c-menu. Granted, the

lyx as an equation editor

2011-10-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all This request comes up every now and then, and was even part of our aborted GSoC 2011. But I was wondering whether there was a simple solution to this, namely re-using the Instant Preview machinery. I am not familiar with it's internals, but I understand that to display the LaTeX results

lyx as an equation editor

2011-10-06 Thread Liviu Andronic
Dear all This request comes up every now and then, and was even part of our aborted GSoC 2011. But I was wondering whether there was a simple solution to this, namely re-using the Instant Preview machinery. I am not familiar with it's internals, but I understand that to display the LaTeX results