On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 11:08:30AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andre> Now, what should we do? I could declare math macros (with > Andre> arguments, macros without arguments are no problem) a 'Power > Andre> User Feature' and require basic TeX knowledge from people that > Andre> wish to use it. Or we could live with the mess as we did up to > Andre> now. > > I am not sure that macros with argument should be a power-user only > thing. In particular, we might want one days to declare in .layout > files some macros that are defined by the documentclass. We should > make sure that these are as easy as possible to handle.
But first of all they should work, shouldn't they? Up to now opening two documents with user defined macros had a decent potential to screw either document. I think Angus was right with his remark to get the structure right first and build a decent GUI later. I think we've got a suitable structure now. Pretty close to what TeX does with all the flexibility (needed or not...). And no document destroys another one anymore just because they happen to contain macros of the same name but different definitions... Andre'
