On 2010-11-28, Georg Baum wrote:
> Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
>> Guenter Milde wrote:
>>> If LyX policy is to follow LaTeX policy regarding stability, it's a bit
>>> more complicated:
>> No it's not. Everybody can put the line in their preamble and make that
>> the document default. I do not see why we should do anything here. It has
>> always been good LyX policy not to do things behinf the user's back if not
>> necessary.
> Actually it is slightly more complicated: If you put \usepackage{fixltx2e}
> into the preamble, and use text subscripts, you get a duplicate definition
> of \textsubscript. Therefore I added a fixltx2e module which can be used
> instead of the preamble line, and which prevents subscript.sty from being
> loaded.
> Instead of directly loading fixltx2e you can use this module in your default
> document, and always get fixltx2e. If you use custom classes you could even
> put the line
> Requires fixltx2e
> into your layout file to get the same result.
I still think, fixltx2e should be used in all new documents by default,
i.e. the choice should be an opt-out instead of an opt-in.
Günter
