Andrew Parsloe wrote:
> I reported a problem about importing underlined text on the users' list a
> week or so ago without getting a bite. In LyX 2.0 in the View Source
> window, underline is shown as \uline{text}, whereas \underbar{text} was
> used in LyX 1.6. If the document is exported as Latex (from LyX 2.0)
> \uline{text} is how it appears in the Latex document. If this Latex
> document is now imported into LyX, the underline is treated as ERT and not
> interpreted as underlined text.
this is kind of regression, indeed. the \underbar -> \uline was fileformat
change. i'm not sure tex2lyx is finally able to cope with newer fileformat
changes with last help from Georg.
add this problem to bugzilla please.
pavel
> I poked around in the source code and found in text.cpp in the tex2lyx
> folder this code:
>
> else if (t.cs() == "underbar") {
> // Do NOT handle \underline.
> // \underbar cuts through y, g, q, p etc.,
> // \underline does not.
> context.check_layout(os);
> os << "\n\\bar under\n";
> parse_text_snippet(p, os, FLAG_ITEM, outer, context);
> context.check_layout(os);
> os << "\n\\bar default\n";
>
> Because of the "underbar" here, I wondered if the Latex document would
> import correctly to LyX 2.0 if \uline{text} were replaced by
> \underbar{text}. I changed the document in a text editor and it does import
> correctly.
>
> Either LyX 2.0 should export \underbar{text} or, what I imagine may have
> happened, "underbar" in this piece of code has been overlooked and should
> be "uline". However, I haven't the means to check this.
>
> Andrew
