On Wednesday 23 May 2001 06:56, Baruch Even wrote:
> Hopefully in the future we will have an embedded scripting language in LyX
> and features like this one will be implementable with it. This will
> satisfy the feature-bloat proponents and the feature-bloat opponents, you
> will be able to use such features if you want and you will be able to
> disable the scripting language altogether if you dont want any of this.
Even better: you will be able to chose which extension packages you want to
use with LyX, if any! I can see a great deal of power in this... For
example having a scipt that lets me query a database, build and sort a table
and insert the results in LyX in a single step. Certainly this could be done
with the many tools available under Unix, however it's certainly going to be
more complicated than desirable in some situations (such as building
invoices, bills, etc.)
Of course there are many more examples where a scripting language would be
useful, but I won't get into them. :)
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