Re: [NTG-context] WYSIWYM editor on top of ConTeXt / Lout

5 Dec 2017

      Le 03.12.17 à 18:00, Aditya Mahajan a écrit :
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This is a blog post I recently published: 
https://jonas17b.wixsite.com/monsite/home/wysiwym-editor-on-top-of-context-l.... 
It is about some ideas I have for a WYSIWYM editor like LyX, but it 
would be designed for using more than 1 backend (e.g. ConTeXt, Lout), 
and to give a much better user experience.
I am curious if you have looked into if it is possible to add a 
ConTeXt backend to LyX. AFAIU, LyX saves the document in a "Lyx 
format" and then transforms it into LaTeX. It might be simplest to 
write a translator from the internal lyx format to ConTeXt and Lout.
Aditya
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Hi Aditya,

 From what I have seen, the LyX format is a LaTeX file with a thin layer 
on top of it. So basically I would need to write a LaTeX to ConTeXt/Lout 
converter ;-). Looks like to me that this editor that I would like to 
design cannot be implemented as an incremental improvement to LyX, as it 
would be a too radical change.

In regards to the translator, I have thought about implementing rules of 
translations in a text file for each supported backend. Advantage would 
be that it will be easy for any user to add a new backend or extend an 
existing one to cover new features or to fix incompatibility issues.

Here is +/- how could look like rules of translations, with the left 
expression, something described in the document format and the right 
expression, the same thing described in the backend format:

<func>[ = ,  = ]{<body>}  =>  
@<func>( -> ,  -> ){<body>}

At this point if we have in document:

start_section[title = Introduction, back_ground_color = green]

it will be translated to @startSection(title -> Introduction, 
back_ground_color -> green)

but if it has instead to be translated to @startHeader(1, Introduction, 
bgColor -> green), we will add the following in the translation file:

start_section[title = , back_ground_color = ] => 
@startHeader(1, , bgColor -> )

Idea is that it starts with very general translation rules and then it 
gets more and more detailled for every cases that don't follow the more 
general rules.

Cheers,
Jonas

Re: [NTG-context] WYSIWYM editor on top of ConTeXt / Lout

Jonas Baggett