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I'm new to LyX. I have just given it a try and written my first article.

I discovered a panel from Menu > View > View Source. It shows the source code of my article. But as far as I see, I am not able to edit this code preview panel. I want to edit both the panels. I want the other panel automatically update itself as I type one panel (like the split panels of code/design in Adobe Dreamweaver). If editing both the panels is not possible, at least I want to do it on the reverse; I only want to work on code and see its preview real time.

Is this possible in LyX?

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e-birk has a good answer. You cannot edit the code in the preview like in Dreamweaver's view source. For this to work, LyX would have to re-import the LaTeX every time you edited it (into it's own internal representation). That's a difficult task. – scottkosty Mar 20 at 17:12

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There is the possibility in LyX to preview graphics and math formulas. The settings can be found under "Tools > Preferences..." then "Look & Feel > Display". (Internally, LyX uses the preview package of LaTeX, see http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/InstantPreview.)

instant preview of math formula This is how your example looks with instant preview on.

Furthermore, LyX is a document processor that generates LaTeX code. As you have discovered you can preview the generated code but you cannot edit this. Nevertheless, you can

  • insert LaTeX code via "TeX code/ERT" (Ctrl+L), or
  • insert entire LaTeX files via "Insert > File > Child Document...".
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