Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Thank you both, Paul and Helge, for your complete explanations! I understood why the source view, in LyX, doesn't operate like a code mode yet. Nevertheless, to work on the exported LaTeX I'm not convinced that a simple text editor is the best solution, even if for

Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Thank you both, Paul and Helge, for your complete explanations! I understood why the source view, in LyX, doesn't operate like a code mode yet. Nevertheless, to work on the exported LaTeX I'm not convinced that a simple text editor is the best solution, even if for

Re: LyX and the lack of a "code mode"; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-18 Thread Helge Hafting
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Thank you both, Paul and Helge, for your complete explanations! I understood why the source view, in LyX, doesn't operate like a "code mode" yet. Nevertheless, to work on the exported LaTeX I'm not convinced that a "simple text editor" is the best solution, even if for

Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Helge Hafting
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Roberto Gorjão wrote: Hi all, I would like to learn a bit more of LaTeX. I found surprising that we couldn't edit latex code directly on LyX at source view... Being used to web page visual editors, I was expecting that the source viewer would function like a code mode

Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Roberto Gorjão
Thank you both, Paul and Helge, for your complete explanations! I understood why the source view, in LyX, doesn't operate like a code mode yet. Nevertheless, to work on the exported LaTeX I'm not convinced that a simple text editor is the best solution, even if for tweaking or fine tunning. I

Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Bo Peng
Being used to web page visual editors, I was expecting that the source viewer would function like a code mode that we could choose as an alternative to the normal design mode, as happens with dreamweaver, The view source windows will, eventually, turn to 'view/edit source window', but as

Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Richard Heck
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Which code editor, if any, would you recommend to edit LaTeX? Preferably one that doesn't mess, or messes as little as possible, with what LyX does. I'm on Win XP. Bummer. The KDE program kile is quite good, I think. Of course, there's always emacs with the LaTeX mode,

Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Which code editor, if any, would you recommend to edit LaTeX? Preferably one that doesn't mess, or messes as little as possible, with what LyX does. I'm on Win XP. Personally, on XP I would go with Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm). It

Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Which code editor, if any, would you recommend to edit LaTeX? Preferably one that doesn't mess, or messes as little as possible, with what LyX does. I'm on Win XP. Both JEdit (http://www.jedit.org/) and Cream (http://cream.sourceforge.net/download.html) have

Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Roberto Gorjão
Thanks, Curtis and all, I also used to work with JEdit but I was not aware that it had a LaTeX plugin. I will give it both, JEdit and Eclipse a try. Thanks! Roberto --- curtis osterhoudt wrote: Both JEdit (http://www.jedit.org/) and Cream

Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Helge Hafting
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Roberto Gorjão wrote: Hi all, I would like to learn a bit more of LaTeX. I found surprising that we couldn't edit latex code directly on LyX at source view... Being used to web page visual editors, I was expecting that the source viewer would function like a code mode

Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Roberto Gorjão
Thank you both, Paul and Helge, for your complete explanations! I understood why the source view, in LyX, doesn't operate like a code mode yet. Nevertheless, to work on the exported LaTeX I'm not convinced that a simple text editor is the best solution, even if for tweaking or fine tunning. I

Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Bo Peng
Being used to web page visual editors, I was expecting that the source viewer would function like a code mode that we could choose as an alternative to the normal design mode, as happens with dreamweaver, The view source windows will, eventually, turn to 'view/edit source window', but as

Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Richard Heck
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Which code editor, if any, would you recommend to edit LaTeX? Preferably one that doesn't mess, or messes as little as possible, with what LyX does. I'm on Win XP. Bummer. The KDE program kile is quite good, I think. Of course, there's always emacs with the LaTeX mode,

Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Which code editor, if any, would you recommend to edit LaTeX? Preferably one that doesn't mess, or messes as little as possible, with what LyX does. I'm on Win XP. Personally, on XP I would go with Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm). It

Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Which code editor, if any, would you recommend to edit LaTeX? Preferably one that doesn't mess, or messes as little as possible, with what LyX does. I'm on Win XP. Both JEdit (http://www.jedit.org/) and Cream (http://cream.sourceforge.net/download.html) have

Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Roberto Gorjão
Thanks, Curtis and all, I also used to work with JEdit but I was not aware that it had a LaTeX plugin. I will give it both, JEdit and Eclipse a try. Thanks! Roberto --- curtis osterhoudt wrote: Both JEdit (http://www.jedit.org/) and Cream

Re: LyX and the lack of a "code mode"; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Helge Hafting
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Roberto Gorjão wrote: Hi all, I would like to learn a bit more of LaTeX. I found surprising that we couldn't edit latex code directly on LyX at source view... Being used to web page visual editors, I was expecting that the source viewer would function like a "code mode"

Re: LyX and the lack of a "code mode"; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Roberto Gorjão
Thank you both, Paul and Helge, for your complete explanations! I understood why the source view, in LyX, doesn't operate like a "code mode" yet. Nevertheless, to work on the exported LaTeX I'm not convinced that a "simple text editor" is the best solution, even if for tweaking or fine

Re: LyX and the lack of a "code mode"; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Bo Peng
> Being used to > web page visual editors, I was expecting that the source viewer would > function like a "code mode" that we could choose as an alternative to > the normal "design mode", as happens with dreamweaver, The view source windows will, eventually, turn to 'view/edit source window', but

Re: LyX and the lack of a "code mode"; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Richard Heck
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Which code editor, if any, would you recommend to edit LaTeX? Preferably one that doesn't mess, or messes as little as possible, with what LyX does. I'm on Win XP. Bummer. The KDE program kile is quite good, I think. Of course, there's always emacs with the LaTeX mode,

Re: LyX and the lack of a "code mode"; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Which code editor, if any, would you recommend to edit LaTeX? Preferably one that doesn't mess, or messes as little as possible, with what LyX does. I'm on Win XP. Personally, on XP I would go with Notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm). It

Re: LyX and the lack of a "code mode"; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread curtis osterhoudt
Roberto Gorjão wrote: > Which code editor, if any, would you recommend to edit LaTeX? > Preferably one that doesn't mess, or messes as little as possible, > with what LyX does. > > I'm on Win XP. Both JEdit (http://www.jedit.org/) and Cream (http://cream.sourceforge.net/download.html) have

Re: LyX and the lack of a "code mode"; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-17 Thread Roberto Gorjão
Thanks, Curtis and all, I also used to work with JEdit but I was not aware that it had a LaTeX plugin. I will give it both, JEdit and Eclipse a try. Thanks! Roberto --- curtis osterhoudt wrote: Both JEdit (http://www.jedit.org/) and Cream

LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-16 Thread Roberto Gorjão
Hi all, I would like to learn a bit more of LaTeX. I found surprising that we couldn't edit latex code directly on LyX at source view... Being used to web page visual editors, I was expecting that the source viewer would function like a code mode that we could choose as an alternative to the

Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Hi all, I would like to learn a bit more of LaTeX. I found surprising that we couldn't edit latex code directly on LyX at source view... Being used to web page visual editors, I was expecting that the source viewer would function like a code mode that we could choose as

LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-16 Thread Roberto Gorjão
Hi all, I would like to learn a bit more of LaTeX. I found surprising that we couldn't edit latex code directly on LyX at source view... Being used to web page visual editors, I was expecting that the source viewer would function like a code mode that we could choose as an alternative to the

Re: LyX and the lack of a code mode; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Hi all, I would like to learn a bit more of LaTeX. I found surprising that we couldn't edit latex code directly on LyX at source view... Being used to web page visual editors, I was expecting that the source viewer would function like a code mode that we could choose as

LyX and the lack of a "code mode"; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-16 Thread Roberto Gorjão
Hi all, I would like to learn a bit more of LaTeX. I found surprising that we couldn't edit latex code directly on LyX at source view... Being used to web page visual editors, I was expecting that the source viewer would function like a "code mode" that we could choose as an alternative to

Re: LyX and the lack of a "code mode"; TeXlipse versus LEd and TeXnic

2007-09-16 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Roberto Gorjão wrote: Hi all, I would like to learn a bit more of LaTeX. I found surprising that we couldn't edit latex code directly on LyX at source view... Being used to web page visual editors, I was expecting that the source viewer would function like a "code mode" that we could choose