On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 8:20 PM, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com>wrote:
> HI Ankit, > > Welcome to LyX! > > I am happy to hear you found Lyx interesting and would like to > contribute to our project. > Let me me remind you, though, that Google has not announced which > organization it will accept this year (the announcement will be made > on Feb 24, i.e. tomorrow). We are hopeful we will be selected > again, but there is no certainty. Thank you stefano for replying. I actually find LyX very much interesting because it gets me rid of the LaTeX syntax. Also even though if you don't get selected for GSOC I will really like to contribute to LyX outside GSOC. > That being said, if you want to get a head start I would encourage you > to take a look at the project page for 2014 on our wiki [1] and start > thinking about which project may interest you the most. To get > familiar with LyX's code base, a good starting point is our bug > tracker [2]. Several bugs are marked "easyfix" and provide excellent > entry points to begin working on the code. Developers documentation is > available on our wiki as well at [3]. Ask question on the developers > list on how to proceed and be sure to check out the beginner > developers FAQ [3]. > > Surely I'll take a look at bug tracker to get myself acquainted with the code base of LyX. As for the Advanced Find and replace, specifically, Tommaso > is the expert on the subject, and he may have replied to you > privately already. There are several bugs marked "Advanced Find and > Replace" > No unfortunately Tommaso has not yet replied me. I'm eagerly waiting for his direction. > in the tracker [4], some of which may provide an entry point into > that section of the code and its structure. > > > Cheers, > > Stefano > > > [1] http://wiki.lyx.org/GSoC/GSoCProjectIdeasFor2014 > [2] http://www.lyx.org/trac/ > [3] http://www.lyx.org/DevFAQ > [4] http://www.lyx.org/trac/search?q=advanced+find > > On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 2:39 AM, Ankit Shah <shahankit2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I'm third year B.Tech. student and would like to work on advance find and > > replace GSOC project. I've used LyX to write my term paper in my previous > > semester and now would like to contribute to same. I've cloned the LyX > Git > > repository. I previously got acquainted regarding the basics of LyX find > > mechanism and debugging LyX code. I previously did work with Tomasso on > the > > same project idea a bit. > > I've watched the three videos provided for advance find and replace. How > > much is it actually completed, I mean is there any previous work done for > > the same or I the idea is to be started from scratch. To implement a > regular > > expression search I know a basic approach used by compilers that is form > > tokens and parse them using a grammar. I can do that using two tools flex > > and yacc. I do not know that they'll interface well with LyX or not. > > Any help regarding the same is welcome. > > > > -- > __________________________________________________ > Stefano Franchi > Associate Research Professor > Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 > Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 > College Station, Texas, USA > > stef...@tamu.edu > http://stefano.cleinias.org > -- Ankit Shah
