On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 08:58:56PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 12:40:04PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > > There is a way around this, if tex seems too limiting. A lyx macro > > doesn't have to have a corresponding tex macro. Lyx could simply > > expand "lyx-macros" itself when exporting tex, instead of outputting a > > tex macro. That'd allow more than 10 arguments, and avoid any other > > tex-specific limitation as well. > > Sure enough. > > > I don't know if it is worth the trouble though. > > We are going to need some 'light' implementation of that anyway when > going to XML (aka non-TeX-math). So this is already somehow on the radar > screen. Not to mention the current ugly macro interface. > I see one problem - the roundtrip lyx->tex->lyx will be harder without tex macros. You'll get all macros expanded on reimport, unless lyx tries to find "repeating sequences". That is a hard problem though, and might cause unwanted macros to appear too.
> But I somehow doubt it will be my doing, so if anybody is interested to > spend some time here in the 1.5 cycle... If I'll be able to spare some time, then charstyles and possibly a style editor is the things I'd like to work on for 1.5. And then there's unicode support . . . Helge Hafting
