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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: Help KDE-Edu: WYSIWYG editor for math expressions
From:       Percy_Camilo_Triveņo_Aucahuasi <percy.camilo.ta () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-02-19 4:39:36
Message-ID: 53043588.4080208 () gmail ! com
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Hi John,

On 17/02/14 10:03, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> I wonder if it would be easier to add C++ binding to something like
> MathQuill? That would seem a very Qt5 thing to do.
> http://mathquill.com/demo.html
>

Yes I tested that approach too, I don't remember exactly what was the 
factors that didn't help to push this approach (I guess we were worry 
about the dependency, since qtwebkit is too heavy), however, perhaps is 
worth it do more research ;)

Thanks for your feedback,
Percy



> I was even wondering if it would make sense plan to eventually replace
> the lyx rich text editor with an html5/javascript-ish* one. For example
> jaxedit has been able to implement a very pretty and simple (and overly
> minimalistiic, but easily extensible) latex renderer in javascript. It
> would be nice to have the ability to link people to a LyX-lite that run
> in their browser.
>
> * with asm.js and NaCl, precisely where javascript begins and ends is
> not so clear any more.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Percy Camilo Triveņo Aucahuasi
> <percy.camilo.ta@gmail.com <mailto:percy.camilo.ta@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear LyX developers, I'm Percy Camilo Triveņo Aucahuasi, I
>     contribute to KDE-Edu[1] (mainly to math applications) and, of
>     course I'm a enthusiastic LyX user too.
>
>     I would like to request your advice and help: Currently our math
>     applications lacks a good (LaTeX based) WYSIWYG editor for math
>     expressions, I think this feature is a must for our users, however
>     the only good implementation I know is in LyX. Our goal is to have a
>     library (C++/Qt based) that can provide us with that functionality,
>     so many KDE-Edu (and even KDE) applications can use it.
>
>     In order to do that, I would like to know:
>
>     What chances we have to reuse your code?
>     Which parts of LyX code are relevant for this feature?
>     How hard do you think (in terms of knowledge, time) can be this? We
>     are currently 2 developers for this task.
>
>     A quick view to the LyX code tells me that src/mathed and
>     src/frontends/ is where we need to focus, but I'm sure you can give
>     us  more insights about how to achieve this goal, we are new with
>     LyX code, so any advice will help us. Also, we are fine with LyX
>     license, since KDE applications are free software too.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Percy (aucahuasi)
>
>     [1] http://edu.kde.org/
>
>
>
>
> --
> John C. McCabe-Dansted
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