On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 06:06:23AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 06:49:34PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > > Martin Vermeer wrote: > > > Actually have a look at the attached. I somewhat changed my mind since > > > the previous reply: what is inside an index inset is real LaTeX, so > > > logically it should be a real LyXText. (Yes, there are some limitations > > > such as no linebreaks allowed; but you get the idea.) > > > > Yes, this was the idea. > > > > > The attached does everything the old index inset does wrt. indexing the > > > selection and the previous/surrounding word. And it collapses to a > > > really small button, and can be opened by "Open all insets". Which the > > > old one did not... > > > > I like it. > > > > Jürgen > > This requires a lyx2lyx entry, if we change over to this. > > The next step would be to provide a \see inset that is only > valid inside an index entry. It would be good to have a general > mechanism for this. > > (Does this solution lose any functionality wrt. the old one? > What other objections are there?) Actually I see several problems.
1) DocBook. Both the index inset and nomencl contain special code for DocBook. 2) Preamble/validate stuff. At least makeidx checks for being provided by the class. I suppose 2) could be addressed by adding a "Require" item to the flexinset layout parameters. 1) is trickier. Any ideas? - Martin
