On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Amir Karger wrote:
> I certainly don't want to suggest that you were wasting your time when you did
> this, but I feel it's not worth optimizing for printing for several
> reasons.
Okay - if no one else objects, I'm going to nuke all the ERT I put in.
This goes with my gut feeling anyway, so I'll just do it when I've got a
few spare minutes.
> ... who install LyX for their groups do print out the manuals; maybe
> individual LyXers have found it useful to have a printed copy, but I think the
> greatest benefit for the greatest number lies in reducing ERT (via the
> Editors' Revolt to Trim ERT) and optimizing for LyX.
Is this ERTERT? :-)
> As a separate issue, is there a way to get LyX to linebreak intelligently in
> such cases? But doesn't url.sty make url's break cleanly? I just looked at the
> docs for it, and it sort of looks like we ought to be using it for any url's
> or email addresses in the docs...
url.sty is certainly one option, at least for the URLs. Is it included in
teTeX-0.4? I personally use the teTeX-0.9 pretest versions, but I don't
want to lose compatibility with 0.4 since most people will have that.
Beyond that, the best solution for the things I noticed would be to add a
paragraph style option for "sloppypar". This is a standard LaTeX
environment which relaxes the spacing penalties.
Please, oh mighty and wise developers, add this one soon!
It would be useful for all sorts of things, but especially the docs.
Another thing I would like is a real line break in the LaTeX sense: one
that fully justifies the line, then returns, unlike (or in addition to)
the current variation which stops in the middle of the line (i.e. left
justifies) and breaks. But I can wait longer for this one.
Okay, enough hot air. Back to using LyX to write a proposal which has
Boeing (yes, the big aerospace company) as a contractor to little, ol' me.
Ain't astronomy great? :-)
