>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Golden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Keith> i thought you'd like to know that the first two links under
Keith> "Recommended Reading"
Keith> (http://www.devel.lyx.org/references.php3) are broken. i wanted
Keith> to look at the development documents to get a feel for the
Keith> direction lyx is going.
They have been lost in a disk crash. Note however that our development
track changed a bit recently, so they might not be up to date...
Keith> i have a few suggestions for enhancements to lyx. assuming they
Keith> are not already implemented or being worked on, i would be
Keith> willing to help out, in that mythical future Sometime When I'm
Keith> Not So Busy.
You will be very welcome.
Keith> my main suggestion is recognition of user-defined commands,
Keith> especially when importing latex files. what i have in mind is
Keith> macro-expanding the commands to see if they map to something
Keith> that lyx knows how to display, then recording that mapping in
Keith> the document for easy lookup. that way, a user would be able to
Keith> enter "\foobar" and have it translated by lyx to $f_o^o(b_a^r)$
Keith> or whatever. the advantage, of course, is the user could later
Keith> redefine \foobar to be $foo^{bar}$. i find that, rather than
Keith> keep the user-defined commands and allow them to be displayed
Keith> in tex mode, i want to change them all so that they "look
Keith> right," thus loosing the abstraction provided by the commands.
Do you know that the math editor already supports user-defined macros?
Having complete macro support would of course be good, but it is not
easy.
Keith> some other things that would be nice are support for
Keith> caligraphic letters (\cal)
Try 'M-c e' (the same as emphasize)
Keith> and support for \mbox in math mode.
Keith> often i want plain text in equations, as opposed to math
Keith> symbols embedded in plain text, and it wasn't obvious how to do
Keith> that in lyx.
Try 'M-m m' (the command to switch into math mode).
Hope this helps.
JMarc
