On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:10:24PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> >>>>> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Andre> If aligned is indeed prefered we could as well required ams by
> Andre> default and I do not have to check everything individually. But
> Andre> I am not sure about how common ams is. It happens to come with
> Andre> SuSE - that's all I know...
>
> Amsmath is required, and this means that we can suppose it is
> installed. The problem is to know whether everybody wants to use
> amsmath. Do astrophysicists also think that writing maths without
> "align" is like rewriting LyX in visual basic? I don't know. My point
> is that we should not decide for people that such or such environment
> is better than what they planned to use, so they just should not use
> it. Anyway, we have a 'use amsmath' checkbox, so we could have align
> be the default when we want to use amsmath. But of course, Dekel wants
> this checkbox to be always true, so this does not solve the problem.
We should assume that many lyx users are not familiar with all latex
packages, so we do need to make some choices for them.
The only problem of using amsmath is that it might cause problems when
using other packages. However, I am not aware of such problems.
