On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 21:42 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Hello LyXers,
>
> I got an interesting email from Henri Adriaens, a author of powerdot. He
> reports me his problems with the implementation of powerdot for LyX. I
> mean that they are interesting enough to talk about it to make life
> easier for package authors to provide a LyX layout file.
>
> Here is the original email:
>
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> Hi Uwe,
>
> and above all, I don't like it at all that the gui places restrictions
> on the latex that can be used in lyx. Have a look at the immense
> effort I had to do to support lyx in powerdot, especially the `file'
> method that writes the body of a slide verbatim to a helper file to be
> able to execute it multiple tiles (overlays). The most tricky thing is
> to be able to read the end of a slide and the beginning of the next:
> \lyxend\lyxslide{Title}
> The first token has to be read verbatim, the second not as it needs to
> be executed again. So we also need to write "\lyxslide{Title}" to
> another file and input it. But wait! If we input it and it does
> "method=file" again, we will be stuck with an EOF in the input stream
> which can't be processed by verbatim macros. \scantokens then? No, it
> has the same bug of adding an EOF.
>
> This is all so much simpler with
> \begin{slide}[method=file]{Title}
> \end{slide}
> \begin{slide}{Title}...
>
> as be can just embed verbatim macros here. No dirty tricks and lots of
> slow, extra files needed. And all this trouble just because
> environments can't have arguments in lyx... Oh my dear...That would be easy to fix... > Anyway, just some hints that might make lyx more accepted in the latex > community. > > Could you please confirm that the original problem was solved? We can > talk about my objections against lyx later if you or someone else in > the lyx development is interested in it :)) > > Cheers, > -Hendri. - Martin
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