On Sat, 24 Jul 1999, Allan Rae wrote:
> Most Annoying Features
> ======================
[..]
Good that Mathed was not mentioned here (bad that elsewhere either ;)
> Requests
> ========
> * A list of all supported packages and classes be made available on the
> web site.
> - this could probably just be a repackaging of LaTeXConfig.lyx
> - the main concern here was wanting to know what we do support
> natively in LyX so newcomers could see what was available.
yes.
> * Multipart document [MPD] support should ensure correct use of \input
> and \include. TOC support for MPDs with the same hypertext style
> traversal across file boundaries.
This is perfectly possible right now in the same way I wrote MPD support
for citations and references. Should this support be written for 1.0?
I'm sure it will be cleaner in 1.2 but perhaps we should not leave
unfinished this stuff in the stable release.
> I'd say the GNOME port would be able to utilise the libart antialiased
> canvas for the Painter implementation okay but as we don't WYSIWYG our
> screen I doubt we could utilise the export-to-printer facilities offered
> by libart. But then I don't know much about libart's reimplemented TeX
> algorithms either -- I suspect its text placement only on a given line
> and not figure or table placement.
Either we use this or a simpler canvas, it would be also suitable that it
can display t1 and tt fonts, using t1lib or freetype libraries.
Alejandro
