On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 05:23:23PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Yoni Elhanani wrote:
>
> > I am not familiar with LyX sources, (I'm barely familiar with LyX
> > itself) but last night I peeked around, and noticed that LyX uses
> > layout files for commands and enviroment (and command-enviroment such
> > as a list), but insets are hardcoded.
>
> [snipped summary of many of our less well documented future plans]
>
[Allan's intelligent reply snipped]
> When can you start?
Exactly!
> You are most welcome to familiarize yourself with the sources and help us
> get the layout changes underway in the development branch. You'll need to
> checkout the 'lyx' cvs tree to do that. What is probably even more
> necessary at present is to skim through the past discussions and create a
> design document or two. Scripting and layouts have been recurring topics
> of conversation for the last 18 months but I don't think any of the
> developers has actually gathered this info together.
Another way to get familar with the sources would be to get together with
Sivan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who mailed the list recently and work on
Right-To-Left support for the new version of LyX. But Israel's a small
country; you two probably already know each other :)
Kol Tuv,
-Amir
