On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 05:57:21PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote:
> Happy Easter everybody!
> 
> Am Freitag, 25. M�rz 2005 08:53 schrieb Martin Vermeer:
>  
> > Does anyone know what the status of these AMS array structures is? They
> > are things like bmatrix, pmatrix etc. etc. I couldn't get any of these
> > to work.
> 
> They do work. See the attached file which has one instance of every grid 
> like structure I know of. I do use bmatrix a lot also in 1.3.
> I have added hlines and vlines to every environment that supports them.
> 
> > Is there supposed to be a working UI to these?
> 
> I don't know any other than typing the environment name in a math box: 
> \bmatrix <space> gives a 1x1 bmatrix. I did not know that either until 
> recently (I believe I read it in Uwes excellent math guide). Before I 
> entered them with a text editor or copied from an existing file ;-(
 
> BTW, I discovered that MathAmsArrayInset, MathSubstackInset and 
> MathArrayInset lack a validate method which requires amsmath. I attached 
> a patch that fixes this. This is going in unless somebody objects.
 
Great!

Once you're at it... let's also add an infoize method, so they appear in
the minibuffer (to construe that as a UI bugfix rather than a new
feature, ask my lawyer :-/ ). And key bindings/shortcuts. As simple as
supporting "math-insert \pmatrix" etc.
 
> Georg

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