Hello,
(could someone please tell me how to subscribe. The www.lyx.org seems to
be unreachable (again... -- aren't there any mirrors?) so I don't know how to
subscribe. Thanks.)
I'm using LyX for some time now (it's really a time saver!). While
preparing to promote LyX at work (university), I came about some
problems with the LaTeX (MS Word) import of (re)LyX (wvCleanLatex). I'll
list them here to find out wether they are well-known
bugs^H^H^H^Hfeatures or wether I should file a bug report. I'm using
wvWare 0.7.4 and reLyX from 1.3.0.
1. what LaTeX code can be used so that reLyX produces the 'quote
glq/grq' insets? wvWare produces \quotedblbase{} and ''. '' is mapped
to 'quote elq' insets which is quite ok, but ERT:\quotedblbase{} looks
very ugly (and it's quite common in german texts). I've tried \glqq as
well, but (as far as I can read the reLyX code), there's no way to
reach 'quote glq/grq'. Am I right? (and while i'm at that topic: why
does LyX use ",," and "''" to export 'quote glq/grq'? "\glqq" resp.
"\grqq" would seem the right thing to me.)
2. Should reLyX ignore 1-cell-multicolumns? wvCleanLatex makes every
cell of a tabular (I've patched it to produce tabular instead of
longtable - maybe I did something wrong during that) a multicolumn
which makes editing annoying (esp. adding frames). Most probably a
wvWare bug, but could reLyX handle it?
3. reLyX improperly parses $a$$b$ (which is $ab$ but reLyX makes $a\[b$
from it). Of course noone sensible would write that, but it's correct
LaTeX-code (at least LaTeX compiles it without problems) and should
stay that. wvCleanLatex creates such code.
4. reLyX doesn't handle \newpage. Almost never needed in LyX, but maybe reLyX could
make a LyX-Pagebreak from that.
That's all regarding reLyX (so far). There's certainly a lot more but I'll wait until
I'm subscribed :)
I'd be happy to help out with solving these problems (I know a bit perl, quite a bit
python but unfortunately nearly no c++) but would need some pointers how help would be
helpfull.
Yours,
Karsten
PS: Has someone built debian (woody) packages with qt-support from 1.3.0?
PPS: My mom wrote her final exam with LyX a year ago. And it looks great!
