Re: Script language (was Re: 1st version of Graphical Tutorial

[Amir Karger]

On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 06:36:12PM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
> I imagine that several of the functions in LyXFunc really should be
> written using the script language instead. So that we only have the
> basic commands implemented in C++ and the compound(?) ones written in
> scripts.
> 
> f.ex. the complete spellcheker support could be written in python.

Would be neat, but only if we include python in the distribution!
I think a lot of people want to use the spellchecker!

> Imageine support for external BibTeX, therasarous(?), knowledege

Theresaurus would be an animal living 165 million years ago that healed other
animals or something. I think you mean thesaurus :)

> databases (or an editor for editing ERT). You would just have to write
> a short script/function in pythos (or whatever) that starts up the
> program in question, no hardcoding.


Neat! it would probably also make it easier to call reLyX with flags etc. from
within LyX.

-Amir