>> 5. Existing documents are very easy to fix. >> > >Backwards compatibility is important. It has been broken >before, for very good reasons, and even though it was done very >carefully, it still caused many problems (still does). >So I don't buy the "very easy to fix" part: it will bite somebody >two minutes before he/she has to make a presentation (or even during the >presentation - DAMHIKT).
Don't get me wrong, I value backward compatibility. However, here for the end user the change would amount to something like if \[ is not at the beginning of a line, then insert \n before \[ if \] does not end a line, then insert \n after \] for the whole document (or something similar). This should obviously be documented in the release notes where an exact procedure to fix the document can be detailed (possibly two query-replace expressions). And if somebody updates just before a presentation and without reading the release notes, then it's his own fault. Regards, Federico
