Dear Herbert, On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Herbert Voss wrote: > > We have discussed such a system earlier, and to put it bluntly, it is > > probably never going to happen. It is not impossible, but it is very hard > > to do. First it needs to construct the latex and lyx class files, which is > > no, it is easy, because you have to define it in LaTeX > and then only to add this to the LyX layout file.
Are you advocating changing the layout file, putting LaTeX code in the layout file instead of changing the LaTeX class file ? Wouldn't that get very ugly, and difficult to maintain ? I thought it cleaner to make the classfile and layout file from "codesnippets", like makebst makes bst's. I do see that distributing the file would involve distributing the classfile as well, which would make a bit more work than only distributing the LaTeX file. And ofcource no need to run texhash. Is there any more reasons to not change the LaTeX-class file and put the LaTeX code in the layout file ? > > complicated. It then needs to advocate good layout. And this is the > > hardest bit, most lyx/latex classes have a high typographical standard. > > Letting the user shoot him/herself in the (layout-)foot ;-), is probably a > > bad ide. > > I suppose, that you do not really understand the difference > between a LaTeX classfile and a corresponding LyX layout file. I thought I understood them, however, how can I know if I understand them or not ? I have changed both LaTeX-class files and LyX-layout files, So I guess I know what they do, but if there are some deeper meaning I might not have understood them. :-) Ingar
