Hello all, I have been busy, but I would like to give a short update on some of the issues raised. I intend to reply in detail to those messages either tomorrow night or Saturday.
Regarding the .C issue, although I don't like them, I think that we should postpone this to 1.6. Lars has requested this before, since he has a ready to go branch for xml file format. We should probably place this in the wiki to avoid the repetition of ever lasting threads. (Christian are you reading this? ;-) Regarding the feature freeze, my understanding is that we should consider all code already present in lyx tree. That means that, for example, most of Georg's code applies, although I would like to consider it on a case by case basis. I agree with Asger assertion of having a list of points where we should work before 1.5. Looking to experiences from other projects I always remember the green, yellow and red phases of kde. :-) I think that we should establish a set of tests for latex output. That is we should a create a file(s) that illustrate all the convertion we want to do on the output. This will help when comparing fixing/coding this stuff. Lars had an interesting idea while in Denmark, we could split the unicode like this: Range File 128-255 latin-1 256-xxx latin-2 yyy-zzz ....... Since we know the codepoints of the unicode characters this would give us a metadirectory where the convertions could be found. Each file would then have a column like structure like this unicode_codepoint native_codepoint latex 128 128 ... ... ... ... 200 200 \'{E} and so on. I can more details later. -- José Abílio