On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, John Levon wrote: > personally I have no real desire for embedding. But that is most definitely > not the point
Then why raise it as an issue? > : inset external CANNOT and DOES NOT do what Jules was asking for. > > That's all I'm saying. Nothing does what Jules is asking for. I had just said that the external inset is inappropriate for extending LaTeX support in LyX. That is the area that Jules is most wanting. This became much clearer after I read the comp.text.tex thread and found out what he really wants: a tool that lets him type in LaTeX (macros, newcommands that lot) and provides both an editing window and a dvi rendering of the codes he's typing in (preferably as he types them). This would indeed be a fantastic inset. It could in fact be fairly easy to arrange -- the document preamble and class settings are taken from the document being edited; the contents of the insets raw tex buffer is placed in the file and the resulting dvi is then viewed (hopefully cropped to just the resulting virtual ink -- or let the user define this in a separate xdvi window). The external inset could be extended to support this approximately (editing in your $EDITOR or $VISUAL and then viewing in xdvi) but I'd rather see a specialised InsetLaTeX. This would not replace InsetERT because they would serve very different purposes. Allan. (ARRae)
