On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:37:36AM +0200, Martin Vermeer wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 02:27:25AM +0200, Dov Feldstern wrote:
> >
> >
> > Martin Vermeer wrote:
> > There's another consideration which you may already be aware of, but which
> > I
> > only just found out now, after playing around with this: part of the
> > problem
> > is that some of these latex commands process their contents in a verbatim
> > fashion. For example, \url does not allow other latex commands inside it
> > ---
> > e.g., typing "\selectlanguage{hebrew}" inside a \url just gets processed
> > verbatim. I had not realized that this was a latex --- rather than a LyX
> > ---
> > limitation. So I guess that that's what the 'verbatim' option is
> > signifying
> > in this case.
Yes, but it's also a verbatim LyX property now.
> > Now, there's also another problem with the URL inset. Currently, I'm
> > having
> > the same problem we were having a few weeks back with the ERT insets: if I
> > try to insert a URL while typing Hebrew text, the font inside it is
> > Hebrew,
> > and I can't switch it to English (well, again, I guess what I actually
> > want
> > is latin, not English per-se?) because we disabled the lfuns. So we should
> > be forcing the font inside the inset to latin, and I guess the best way we
> > have for doing that is by forcing the font to latex_language. Does this
> > sound right (despite what I was saying above about not expanding the usage
> > of latex_language :( ) --- i.e., should we be forcing latex_language for
> > all
> > 'verbatim' insets?
I would not be happy about this as I said. Elaborating, the
problem of needing in this case to switch encodings is due to
a LaTeX limitation. If LaTeX were Unicode-capable, we could
just write, and the typed chars would come out right by
themselves. As it is, the Unicode must be converted to 8-bit
encodings with switches inbetween. LyX2lyx ought to handle this
transparently.
How is the encoding decision taken BTW in LyX? Only based on
the language mark-up? Or could it look at the actual characters
too?
- Martin
