On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > On Monday 22 March 2010 17:43:10 Julio Rojas wrote: >> The only feature I miss is a layout editor. I don't know how easy >> would it be to program one, but that would be one good addition. > > It's hard Julio. It's hard enough that I couldn't even *specify* a layout > editor, though I tried. If I'd been able to specify one, I'd have either > pestered the LyX crew to write it, or written it myself in Perl/Tk (I'm not > much of a Qt type of guy).
It would be a useful feature to have and something that I've looked for in the TeX/LaTeX environment for decades. Simple word processors achieve it by allowing documents to be created as templates. So it is a real shame that TeX has never had anything equivalent other than trial and error. > I'm thinking the best way to address the difficulty of new environments and > character styles might be to start a public collection of them. ... Don't we already have that with the CTAN archive? Why create a separate LyX one when the LaTeX part of CTAN already exists? > Wordperfect and MSWord have layout editors of sorts, but their tags are sooooo > much simpler than LaTeX. And doesn't Scribus (as a DTP package using XML) have a layout editor. Regards, Trevor. <>< Re: deemed!
