Hello, I don't really know how the mail listing works, new to the concept. I've had a few questions revolving around an idea recently trying to teach myself pgfplots. I'm fairly new to LyX and LaTeX in general (started using both in January) and I'm also no programmer but I wanted to add a new feature to LyX of a plotting tool. What I'm thinking of is on the math bar or some other bar, add a plot icon that will open a window with all the parameters for the mostly used plots (2D/3D, Cartesian/polar/spherical..., scatter/bars/pie..., parametric curves or surfaces, implicit functions, vector fields, and more). I'm still learning pgfplots but it follows a fairly simple and well defined formula for most of the plots so it most likely can be automated. And now it opens some questions:
1. Is there a way I can start work on it as a personal project (I specifically want it to be a personal thing, to see if I'm capable of this, and also it can't look bad on the resume), and when I believe it's done and an acceptable feature, present it to the developers and implement it for the next version? 2. I also thought that the output on the LyX document itself would be a new environment (like the math environment) that can render those plots directly into LyX document without the need to compile the document to check if the plot is what you really wanted, so how do I create such an environment? P.s. I'm probably coming of as an over enthusiastic guy with a goal beyond it's current reach but I want to see to it, with no deadlines and anything just the joy of creating a good feature. Thanks in advance for the help! I hope this finds the right people haha
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