On Thursday 03 February 2005 17:46, Andreas Vox wrote: > Jose' Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You (we) must first convince Lars about it now. > > > > Probably a well laid out argument why this patch is important for > > docbook users. > > Hm, at least it's totally unimportant to non-Docbook users: the only > common code which is touched is the refactoring of PreviewLoader, and I > could replace that by Copy&Paste.
I would like to have this part of the code reviewed by Angus when he returns. :-) > Also it's a fix to bugs #1713, #1714, #1715 and #1716 -- oh, it looks as > if those are assigned to you, JosÃ! :-) :-o ;-) > Ok, Lars, > as Chris' argues on his webpage ( http://www.karakas-online.de/mySGML/ ) > LyX 1.3 is not usable for serious Docbook editing. The main reason is the > broken Math support: no Latex code, instead unused MathML code. > We already fixed some deficiencies in 1.4.0cvs (drop MathML output for > SGML, provide filenames, some escaping, other features). My last patch > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=lyx-devel&m=110710201022468&w=2 > completes this in using preview.sty to produce bitmap files for all > equations, thus not only providing the filenames but the files as well. > > Since these changes don't touch the non-Docbook users and LyX 1.2 was > used by some (most?) Docbook users in favour of LyX 1.3, I think we > should try to provide decent Docbook support for LyX 1.4.0. > > Is this convincing? It is for me. I should apologize to you as my time lately has been almost nil to look into this carefully. This will hopefully improve after the 22nd. > Cheers > /Andreas -- Josà AbÃlio
