On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Abdelrazak Younes <you...@lyx.org> wrote:
> On 14/03/2013 15:14, Alex Vergara Gil wrote:
>>
>>
>> Isn´t there a better way to do this inside LyX?
>> I think this is a good feature request for developers, is not that hard
>> to put a button inside the math environment that switches between TeX
>> and rendered math mode, and when exited you see only rendered. I don´t
>> know if I am making myself clear, so I will explain this a little more.
>>
>> 1 Enter in math mode and add some equation/whatever.
>> 2 Now I want to add some TeX code directly or edit what I have
>> introduced, so I press the (requested) switch button and I could see all
>> in TeX code.
>> 3 I edit the TeX code  and when finished press the switch button again
>> (or just leave math mode), the result should be the new rendered
>> equation/whatever I have edited.
>>
>> This feature would be great for middle to power users, off course one
>> should only expect math code inside the math mode so it would be nice to
>> clarify this in the manual if it is actually included.
>>
>> I know I can do this in a ERT environment but then I need to copy to
>> math but that´s not an optimal approach.
>
>
> This sounds like a not very hard feature to implement, maybe without
> touching C++ even. So why don't you implement this yourself and propose a
> patch? There are not many active developers these days so LyX users must
> participate to the development if they want to see LyX evolve.

+1. See the link below for a start. One of the solutions does
basically what you suggest but using shortcuts.
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/84031/making-an-edit-to-an-inline-equation-that-went-off-of-the-screen/84060#84060

Scott

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