On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:28:43AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > > You ask for \alpha in text mode and get the same result as entering \alpha > > in ERT in text mode. > > I have expressed my opinion before
So did I ;-) > What makes a fix reasonable is that lyx 1.2 gracefully allows users to > enter \alpha,\sum etc without worrying about text or math mode and we > are spoiled! You could try again to explain how this should be handled in a easy-to-understandi (for me and the users...) one-size-fits-all manner. I could disallow direct entering of \alpha in math text mode but apart from not liking that idea there is no simple way to extend this to "conversion" (mark something, press C-m). > Put this to an extreme, whatever users can enter into lyx 'normally' > through keyboard, menu, (preamble, ERT do not count here), they should > not expect compiling errors. Is this reasonable? Sure. But math is not normal ;-) Not in LyX, not even in TeX... > There is another similar example we have discussed before, user opens a > new document, insert math-case, compiling error! I would switch AMS on by default, that would "cure" the problem. But that drew too much flak a while ago... > If you are not going to fix this problem, would you at least warn the > users in whatsnew.txt? (I doubt how many people will read it though.) Never heard such a thing exists... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
