On Mon, 2022-09-12 at 12:27 +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 11/09/2022 à 14:46, Rich Shepard a écrit :
> > On Sun, 11 Sep 2022, Steve Litt wrote:
> >
> > > If one prefers not to put it in ERT,
> >
> > Many years ago I expressed the opinion (on the mail list) that the term
> > should be changed because there's nothing evil about inserting LaTeX in a
> > LyX document. I was ignored.
>
> What is evil in Embedded Raw Text ? :-p
>
> More seriously, I could not find where ERT is defined in our
> documentation (it is used without explanation, though). There are a
> couple of mentions of Evil Red Text in Additional.lyx, but they assume
> that the user know what it is.
ERT does (or did) indeed stand for Evil Red Text. ERT is the method for
inserting
raw LaTeX into a LyX document. In 2001, when I first joined the LyX list and
began
using LyX to write books, ERT was widely used, and eerybody referred to it
as
ERT. Evil because it's usually not really the best way to do things. Red,
because at
the time (and I think still) it was red within the LyX screen on which you type.
Text, because whatever text you put in would be interpreted as LaTeX.
LyX has progressed amazingly in the past 2 decades, so ERT is less necessary
now.
ERT has a different and more descriptive name now, but I don't know what it is,
because about the only place I use ERT is in the frontmatter in order to get the
front cover graphic aligned correctly, and to guarantee a few pagefeeds.
Because I
use it so little, I rarely talk about it. I never thought of it before, but I
still
use the 20 year old phrase "ERT" instead of its modern name. I'm sorry for the
confusion.
SteveT
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