On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 04:28:13PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | We are always interested. One thing that I would note is that we're a > | small collection of programmers and are very wary of enormous > | patches, prefering a 'little and often' approach. Moreover, because > | we are trying to clean the code base up (and have been doing so for > | several years) we have found it useful to have preliminary and > | informal discussions about the best way to implement some suggestion. > | Often the design becomes far more generic as a result. Getting your > | students to participate in such discussions would be an excellent > | thing for them to do anyway. > > Yes, and this would be required for them to get a patch into Lyx > anyway, and should absolutely be part of the assignment. > I do not know how formal you are going to do this assignment, but for > bugs not much are needed..., for new features it would be really nice > if a formal design were present (we have been bad at those).
I think we even could come up with a list of nice-to-have features. Simple features would be some new math inset. Just browse the AMS classes for something not "natively" supported. Should be plenty of them. A simple but tedious task would be to 'translate' the TeX names in lib/symbols to MathML entities. Improving MathML export for existing math inset would be a nice task as well. More tricky but still within the scope of a third year assignment would be work ok tex2lyx. Andre'
