Re: Fun = Signals + Buffers + Insets

[John Weiss]

On Mon, Mar 15, 1999 at 04:07:08PM +0100, Andre' Poenitz wrote:
> 1. LyX is *more* than a LaTeX frontend, so the excuse "LaTeX can't cope
>    with it (natively), so we can't have it in LyX" might put off people
>    who want do use LyX for HTML or maybe even just for displaying
>    things on screen.
> 
> 2. It is much more user friendly to say "Nest whatever you (the user)
>    want, we (LyX) figure out how to translate it into LaTeX"
>    -- and I think it is more WYSIWYM than telling the user that (s)he
>    cannot mean "nested paragraphs" because there are no such beasts 
>    in LyX.

The problem here is that LyX will then either:
    1.  generate LaTeX code that won't LaTeX.
    2.  will have to mangle the document to get the nesting correct
        for LaTeX-ing.

-- 
John Weiss