>>>>> "Mike" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Mike> Hi all, I just sent JMarc my patch for AASTeX support, so you
Mike> are now going to have a horde of American astronomers clogging
Mike> the ftp sites. :-)
This is in cvs now.
Mike> While I was preparing this I found a few things I thought I'd
Mike> throw at you. First the trivial:
Mike> Three files in lyx-1.0.3/po are not removed properly after a
Mike> "make distclean": Makefile, Makefile.in, POTFILES.
Are you sure? The Makefile there reads:
distclean: clean
rm -f Makefile Makefile.in POTFILES *.mo *.msg *.cat *.cat.m
Mike> Now the not so trivial:
Mike> 1) With all the work you guys are doing trying to make \url
Mike> work, it turns out that it clobbers any native \url definitions
Mike> in the class file. AASTeX has its own definition of URL, but I
Mike> can't use the URL inset because LyX then tries to load the
Mike> url.sty file. Perhaps there should be a ProvidesURL layout
Mike> definition similar to ProvidesAmsmath?
This is indeed possible. Does the \url command of AASTeX use verbatim,
or does it need characters to be escaped?
Mike> 2) It would be _really_ nice to have some way of supporting
Mike> "user" commands; e.g. a table would pop up (similar to the math
Mike> symbols table) with "micron" on it - clicking on it would insert
Mike> $\mu$m into the LateX file and mathmode{\mu}m on the
Mike> screen. That would make the large number of short definitions
Mike> contained in AASTeX (like abbreviations for all the journal
Mike> names, physical symbols, etc.) much more palatable.
Yes.
Mike> 3) It would be immensely useful to come up with a way of
Mike> supporting changeable optional arguments in the layout files.
This will hopefully happen in 1.1.x
Mike> 4) Any chance of supporting \citet and \citep in the relatively
Mike> near future? These are needed to take advantage of natbib
Mike> support. One idea for implementation is to simply add exclusive
Mike> radio buttons to the Citation popup: below the two text boxes
Mike> simply click on \cite, \citet, or \citep or alternatively,
Mike> Standard, Name (Year), (Name Year). You'll make at least this
Mike> astronomer very happy ...
This has already been suggested, but I guess we have to stop on new
features for 1.0.x...
JMarc
