Ryan Cross wrote:
On Nov 25, 2007 11:18 AM, Andre Poenitz <
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On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:26:26AM +1100, 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.
ReLyX is replaced by tex2lyx nowadways. But even that is fragile and
incomplete. As an additional burden, it would need to handle incomplete
TeX constructs, too.
I did see that ReLyx was replaced by tex2lyx (which is hopefully better). I
think this feature could be solved by actually doing a preview/edit of the
actual Lyx file format and not the LaTeX. Most of the edits I want to do
could probably be done by editing the Lyx file format. This would eliminate
the issue of converting in place, the only thing that would be
useful/necessary would be to have some sort of tag closer, which is
relatively easy.
This sort of request is quite commonly made, and it's been on the
developers' radar, more or less, for a while. Obviously, the View Source
preview is a step in this direction. But, as Andre remarked, it's
non-trivial to get this right, and the number of people who would use it
seems small. In any event, no one has stepped up to do the work needed
to implement it. Anyone who wants to do so is of course welcome!
Richard
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