On 01/05/13 05:58, PhilipPirrip wrote:
> I don't think layout editor can come much farther than presenting us with a
> list of keyword/value pairs.
Let's say, I'm not concerned about how to edit the layout information. I just
said visually edit because
for trivial things that many non-professional users need, it might be easy,
handy & also cool to just
have that kind of stuff. But, I also know well that even in the trivial thing
to set margins, what I
really want, is to set them numerically, to be compliant with what's needed in
the typographic process.
So, it can just *show* visually the result on a preview page (yes, a'la "the
lazy fox etc...:-)"), and
you keep editing the key-value pairs. That's fine.
I'm just pointing out that, instead of merely producing an output that can only
be useful to LyX,
it might be easy to make it in such a way that we produce an output that can be
readily used by
latex-only users. Or, for what it matters, it might have a plug-in support for
producing output
for HTML (e.g., a CSS file), for latex (.cls/.sty), for LyX (.cs/.sty + .layout
+ .lyx template ?),
for ePub (what's used there ? no clue) etc...
For all of these, likely that often a lot of the layout-ing actions are in
common (text margins,
font family and size, etc...). So, keep an eye on reusing the layout editor for
having a wider
potential usefulness.
My2c,
T.
