> Andre> 1. I am not aware of too many situations where there is a
> Andre> *script on its own in a formula (one might argue with
> Andre> "prepended" scripts, but that's solvable).
>
> I think some people do that in physics to have *scripts n the left of
> a symbol.
The scriptinset could have up to five cells (including two for "prepended"
super/subscript).
> Andre> 2. In all most of the cases there is some kind of 'semantical
> Andre> tie' between base and *script. So having the base as part of
> Andre> the inset, anything related to semantics could be easier (think
> Andre> of export to Maple/*)
>
> Yes, but this could be done via a distinct macro, as we discussed for
> integrals. I do not think that the maple export feature should force
> everybody to provide semantics. OTOH, one could argue that LyX is
> supposed to encourage semantics vs WYSIWYG.
I do argue that way.
> Andre> 3. The implementation of drawing will be cleaner (no need to
> Andre> look outside the inset to determine in which height the
> Andre> superscript to draw)
>
> Remember that this is what TeX does, so you would be closer to its
> semantics.
*shrug* WYSIWYG vs WYSIWYM.
> Andre> A reason against that:
>
> Andre> - The uservisible behaviour will change (i.e. when moving in
> Andre> 'ab^c' it will take three right steps from the left- to the
> Andre> rightmost position: One to go behind the a, one to enter the
> Andre> inset (optically the same position), one to leave the inset.
>
> I think people will be pissed by this change, unless you can find a
> clever way to hide it (which seems difficult).
Not really. I can hide the step into the macro by checking whether we are
in front of a scriptinset after a cursor->next.
There is already script specific stuff in the cursor, so the harm is
already done.
> PS: do you have plans to support the \big* family of delimiter modifiers?
If anybody cares to explain me what the '\big* familiy of delimiter
modifiers' is and if that is something that belongs to mathed and if it
is needed and/or cute, we could make plans...
Andre'
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