Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Monday 14 May 2007 1:29:05 pm Alexander Schmolck wrote:
>> Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I'd *really* like the ability to ``usepackage`` for various reasons and it
>> would clearly add useful functionality that is not otherwise obtainable.
>>
>> I understand concern about an additional support burden, but couldn't this
>> be handled by explicitly noting that it's unsupported, possibly even
>> printing out an unsubtle warning
[...]
> As far as I'm concerned, being unsupported disqualifies the feature from
> being
> included in mpl.
Well, if ever there was a compelling use-case for an undocumented/unsupported
feature it would be this one, I think.
We are talking about something that involves very little implementation effort
(< 5 LOC or so), right? So provided it doesn't result in either an
implementation burden or in additional support requests, why wouldn't you
allow people to obtain functionality, at their own risk, that may be of high
utility to them?
For example, I use a few lower-case bold greek symbols in my work, and I also
want to use them in my plots. Due to some arbitrary braindamage in latex, this
essentially requires a ``\usepackage{bm}`` somewhere in your preamble, and
there are other fairly standard things are as far as I can see impossible to
obtain without (if it doesn't cause portability hassles of the type you
mentioned etc., I think it might actually be worth-while considering to add
things like 'bm' and 'ammssymb' to the default-preamble).
I don't think me and other users editing texmanager by hand or resulting to
some really nasty hacks in order to just extend simple template string being a
better solution (or one that necessarily results in fewer support requests --
"oops, sorry I just noticed I actually screwed around with this file in order
to change my latex-preamble").
It wouldn't even be necessary to add some proper latex_preamble option, as
long as there is some TexManager attribute that's easily enough to modify.
cheers,
'as
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