On Thu, Feb 14, 2002 at 01:50:29PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > > Thankyou for agreeing that inset external is not a sufficient mechanism for making >lyx > > extendible ! > > No. The problem is more restricted than you imply. InsetExternal is > _inappropriate_ for extending LyX's LaTeX support it is still > sufficient for extending LyX in other ways.
by the same token, the ability to include .tex files also makes lyx extendible. > > all very nice, but nothing to do with lyx plugins until you can *embed* the editor. > > Have you ever tried to use one of those dumb applications that embeds > inside another? Any of the ones I have seen just make me vomit. > They are impossible to make sensible use of. Give me the real > application in its own window any day not some bogus merged-in kludge. again, how do I cut and paste ? how do I spellcheck ? You can't just ignore all these sort of things ! > External inset is how I would much rather work with an external app. > The only improvement would be to display what the output might be but > when I click on it to edit it the real external app is started not > some lame embedding scheme that merges toolbars and menus and other > nonsense. That is far too confusing and ugly. personally I have no real desire for embedding. But that is most definitely not the point: inset external CANNOT and DOES NOT do what Jules was asking for. That's all I'm saying. regards john -- "I'd rather be rudely informed than politely left in the dark."
