John Weiss wrote:
I concur:
1. External LaTeX packages have no place in LyX.
Lars/Asger/Jean-Marc and a cast-of-thousands worked long and hard to ensure we'd never need to do this (hence the whole LaTeX-Config engine & autogenerated manual). Why resurrect a long-rejected bad idea?
LyX comes with a lot of layouts for different LaTeX-classes (AGU, REVTeX etc.) So why shouldn't we include a layout for the beamer class.
2. What the heck is a beamer?
Just because you think it's the greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread doesn't mean everyone else does. Or even knows it exists. (Your bias is showing, Uwe!)
(Nobody forces you to add caustic comment to your questions.)
Beamer is a class for creating presentations. It is a new package but became one of the most popular in the LaTeX community (browse e.g. comp.text.tex). Beamer is developed to work together with LyX and also the beamer userguide incorporate LyX.
If it were really all that critical (like e.g. geometry.sty), it'd already have integrated LyX support. If it's The Future, the devteam will discover it soon enough...
So I shouldn't make proposals?
regards Uwe
