Ryan Cross wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the "understanding" you are referring to is already available - it is the relyx command that is used when opening/importing a latex file. So, what this is a request for is a relyx in place option - which is listed on the wiki with several other feature requests. With that in mind, I don't think this request is quite as complicated as you make out - but i'm not a lyx developer.
That sounds about right ... with the observation that relyx will convert an entire document, not just a modified section. I don't know the workings of relyx, so I don't know if it would be easy to have an on-the-fly relyx convert just modified pieces of a document. If it has to convert the entire document, that has implications for usability when working on a large document.
The other issue is that I think relyx tends to leave some chunks of LaTeX as raw LaTeX (in ERT boxes). I'm not sure about this because I virtually never use relyx (lack of need). If I'm right, then a tweak of the raw LaTeX followed by an on-the-fly relyx might convert what was previously a non-ERT element of the document into ERT. Turning a table, for instance, into ERT costs you substantial editing ease.
I'm not a developer, though, so an expert opinion would be useful here. /Paul
