Edit Externally: implement for math insets?

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at lyx.org
Wed May 12 15:24:27 UTC 2021


On 5/12/21 10:32 AM, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> I'm surprised that this question about toggling between LyX math and
> LaTeX has received a lot of views:
>
>    https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/45301/in-lyx-is-there-a-way-to-toggle-the-display-of-tex-code-in-math-expressions/46328#46328
>
> I don't know anything about how LyX stores math in memory, but in the
> file format if I remember correctly we essentially store LaTeX. Does
> this mean we could allow "Edit externally" for math insets?

It would be pretty simple to do, I think. And probably useful in some 
cases. But I'm very ignorant about the math code.

Riki




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