On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:29:58PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote:
> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> > It looks good, except this bit that I do not like much:
>
> Me neither. But if the goal is real roundtrip support, something like this
> is needed. The problem is that lyx generates a newline at some places (like
> before \end{qoute} etc. that does not correspond to a space in the lyx
> file. If the requirements on the roundtrip support are less strict, one can
> ignore the "spaces may be removed" case, and this function will become much
> simpler.
Maybe we must settle at a 'round trip' definition. There are several
possibilities:
1. round trip in the weak sense:
.lyx -> .tex -> .dvi == .lyx -> .tex -> .lyx -> .tex -> .dvi
2. round trip in the realistic sense:
.lyx == .lyx -> .tex -> .lyx (mod irrelevant whitespace)
3. round trip in the strong sense:
.lyx == .lyx -> .tex -> .lyx
.tex == .tex -> .lyx -> .tex
[...]
I'd be more than happy to have 2. and I'd rather not add too much code
to make the whitespace behave nicely as long as 1. is satisfied.
If there is a possibility to stay 'white-space correct' without too much
extra code, we can aim for white-space correctness, but this is a
secondary goal.
Andre'
