Atakan Kubilay wrote:
This is just a call for an added feature I have sorely felt the absence of: I want to be able to edit Latex code-not just preview it-while typing.
Someone else suggested/requested this recently. I'm not sure if it was entered into bugzilla as an enhancement request.
I know it can be a big mess if a novice Latexer edits the code, but there can just be a big warning message like that appears on the top of the document.
It's more complicated than that. If you modify the LaTeX source (as opposed to entering LaTeX in an ERT box), LyX would have to "reverse-engineer" your changes in order to keep the display correct. (With ERT, LyX makes no attempt to format your entry for the display.) So you now require LyX to "understand" a virtually unlimited amount of LaTeX syntax (I say "unlimited" because, of course, LaTeX is designed to be extended by macro packages).
/Paul
