Hello,
Mailmerge is indeed a very nice example.
Other examples (with more dynamic auto-completion content) would be:
proposing citations for a sentence based on the context and your
history, proposing ways to shorten or expand a statement, proposing
auto-fixes for issues like "undefined terms", "inconsistent ordering of
items", etc.
There are external text-analysis tools to do all that already (at some
level). So I was looking for a general way to integrate them to LyX by
"hacking" the existing auto-completion mechanism a bit.
Incidentally, with such an autocompletion mechanism, I would be glad to
try and use LyX for code-authoring (in the programming sense), apart
from text. It would be nice to code with some beautiful typesetting for
a change :)
I can start looking into the code then. Are the LFUNs a good to place to
start and get an idea about how things work? (top-to-bottom approach..)
Thanks,
Christos
On 12/20/2020 9:11 PM, John White wrote:
This is an interesting thread. Reminds me of Wordstar's mailmerge.
John
On Sunday, December 20, 2020 8:07:09 AM PST Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
On 12/19/20 7:36 AM, Christos Liaskos wrote:
Dear LyX development team,
First of all, many thanks for your hard work! I am an enthusiastic
user of LyX since 2009.
I would like to create a custom plugin. (The goal is to provide
generalized text autocompletion, depending on the context).
I have searched for information about developing plugins in general,
but I can't find much.
Can you direct me to some info on how to develop plugins?
There are no plugins as such for LyX. Anything that's in the code is in
the main codebase. The only exception is the various configuration files
that are text files (layouts, templates, the math autocomplete file,
etc). So kind of thing you are envisaging would just need to be added to
the main code.
I'm curious though what you mean by "generalized text autocompletion".
Riki
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