On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:03:18PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "José" == José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> José> On Monday 19 March 2007 5:08:48 pm Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >> Or have ProvidesNatbib and ProvidesNumNatbib (but the two should
> >> be exclusive). In the future, the idea is to move to something like
> >> Provides "foo" where "foo" is an arbitrary feature. It would have
> >> been good to do that before 1.5, actually.
>
> José> What needs to be done?
>
> Currently we have an enum in lyxtextclass.h:
>
> /// Packages that are already loaded by the class
> enum Provides {
> ///
> nothing = 0,
> ///
> amsmath = 1,
> ///
> makeidx = 2,
> ///
> url = 4,
> ///
> natbib = 8
> };
>
> The idea is to replace it with a std::set<string> and change
> LyXTextClass::provides() accordingly. The rest is purely mechanical
> (replace enum by string). It could be possible to simplify further the
> code, but it is not needed now (and may be more dangerous)
>
> Then layout2layout will need to update "ProvidesUrl 1" to "Provides
> url".
>
> The result will be the we can specify for any feature that LyX knows
> about that there is no need to bother.
+1
Very good idea. And we need "Provides Babel" at least for EGS.
- Martin
