Fixing #12372: leverage preview to have images in DocBook instead of LaTeX code

[Thibaut Cuvelier]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 at 16:35, Pavel Sanda <sanda at lyx.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 03:12:02PM +0200, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 at 15:07, Pavel Sanda <sanda at lyx.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 02:33:47PM +0200, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
> > > > The only solution I could find is to use the existing mechanism to
> > > generate
> > > > preview images. This way, the LaTeX code is transformed into an
> > > > intelligible form (i.e. an image), while still keeping the original
> LaTeX
> > > > code if someone wants to modify the image without access to the
> original
> > > > LyX document (this property is quite important to me).
> > >
> > > Just to be sure - do I understand correctly that what you aim for is to
> > > take
> > > any piece of ERT, run preview-inset-like machinery, get it's output as
> an
> > > image
> > > and include it in docbook output?
> > >
> >
> > No, that's not for any ERT, it's only for insets that opt into this
> > mechanism. In particular, for the linguistic trees, there are no ERT
> > involved. It's not automatic at all.
>
> I see, that makes better sense. I briefly went through the code and
> it looks sane to me, so go ahead unless someone else has more comments.
>

Thanks for having a look! I'll push this tonight.
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