On Tue, 20 Oct 1998, John Weiss wrote:
> Lest ye think only Asger and Alejandro have opinions on this
> subject...
>
>
> 1) First, let's get one thing clear: comment-embedded LyX commands
> won't fly.
>
> Sure, *if* we were only interested in supporting LaTeX, then the
> comment-commands could work. OTOH, my initial work, and Amir's
> subsequent labors, show that It's Gonna Be Tough to do all of that
> translation...
I don't think this matters at all, but the current TeX parser would be
MUCH happier if you had a \LyXcomment{...} instead of putting it into a
comment. The reason being that the current tex parser destroys comments
without even looking at them, & that's something I may not be able to fix
for a while. But you could just define in the preamble
\newcommand\LyXcomment[#1]{}
Or something like that.
Then reLyX could just parse that by copying everything brackets verbatim.
Probably this doesn't matter right now, though, right?
> 4) We should choose that combination of LaTeX and DocBook which is
> most powerful for the features we need.
Right. Just remember that you need to choose something that's not hard for
another program (like reLyX) to write, too. I've mentioned that bug of
writing one \n too few before, which was particularly annoying since I
*thought* LyX ignores \n's.
-Amir
