TeXmacs is a good alternative. Hiding away preamble stuff has always been sufficiently problematic for me for me not to take to LyX.
I have not much used TeXmacs but it has a lot of this and more. For my documents, I stick to LaTeX with a live preview. Just can't beat that kind of power. On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Guenter Milde <mi...@users.sf.net> wrote: > > On 2015-06-10, Benedict Holland wrote: > > > >> Since there are already excellent Latex editors, I don't > >> understand why it would be desirable for Lyx to incorporate such > features. > > > > I love LyX, because I can input math from the keyboard, without click and > > search in menus and dragging around - just using familiar LaTeX syntax. > > > > The same would apply for many smaller edits (font changes, package > > insertions, ...): if the source view were edible, I could do many of > > these changes fast and per keyboard without searching in menus or the > > shortkey-list. > > > Maybe some sort of math-like tab-activated completion could be > implemented, for commands that LyX supports natively... There'd be > less scope for getting it wrong in such a set-up. > > So something along the lines of: > - activate math-like completion as in "\" > - propose a list of completion possibilities given an exclusive list > of commands that LyX understands and supports natively > - run tex2lyx on the input when user signals they're done > - if something didn't go to plan, spit out ERT > > But I expect this wouldn't be a trivial implementation to get > everything right and cover all potential complications... > > Liviu > > > > (Of course, this is from the view point of someone familiar with LaTeX - > but > > this is a large part of the LyX user base.) > > > > Günter > > > > > > -- > Do you think you know what math is? > http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 > Or what it means to be intelligent? > http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 > Think again: > http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library >
