On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 04:21:55PM +0000, Jose' Matos wrote: > The attached patch unifies the API used for the different backends in insets. > > In inset.h we have: > > int latex(Buffer const &, std::ostream &,LatexRunParams const &); > int ascii(Buffer const &, std::ostream &,LatexRunParams const &); > int linuxdoc(Buffer const &, std::ostream &,LatexRunParams const &); > int docbook(Buffer const &, std::ostream &,LatexRunParams const &); > > that is, we use the LatexRunParams to carry the different running > parameters.
[Why not move the Buffer ref to LatexRunParams as well?] > I have discussed this with Jean-Marc and Angus last July in Chemnitz, and if > I understood well this was the path that Jean-Marc proposed. > > One of the advantages of this approach is that will five me docbook xml > almost by free adopting a flavour approach. > > This is necessary for a real mathml support,as it is xml... > > The other advantage is the removal of nice from buffer, that is possible > now. > > In the process I moved also the ascii generator for paragraphs to > paragraph_funcs. That is we are moving all the functions not related with > buffer out to the proper way. > > The only problematic bits are some of the ascii functions that are used > elsewhere... > > Comments? The approach is fine with me. And as this is more or less the same scheme as used in src/m* this would be a major step forward on inset unification. Andre'
