On 2011-12-28, Bogdan wrote:
> On 28-Dec-11 6:04 pm, Richard Heck wrote:
>> On 12/28/2011 12:49 PM, Richard Heck wrote:
>>> On 12/28/2011 10:00 AM, Bogdan wrote:

...

> It would be quite nice if LyX offered a feature to edit, say, the source 
> of a highlighted portion of text/math. That way, for any such 
> unsupported features like \\[10pt], I could just select text, edit lyx 
> source, a separate window/panel appears with the source, do my edits 
> there e.g. add \\[10pt], press done to go back to normal LyX view. I 
> know it looks like it defeats the purpose of LyX but would allow quick 
> workarounds of any troublesome situations.

> What do others think?

My suggestion is to allow "dissolution" of a math inset similar to other
insets (note, float, minipages and other boxes, etc.):
  
  if you place the cursor at the first position in the inset and press
  Backspace, the inset is replaced by its content.
  
For a math-inset, the content would be the LaTeX source. Then you could
toggle between source and math-inset quite easily.

Of course, an editable LaTeX source view would be the more generic and long
awaited solution - but far more hard to implement.

Günter

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