On Monday 30 October 2006 7:56 pm, Georg Baum wrote: > > I don't think so, at least for things like index entries. The difficult > thing is not the change in the file format (in fact the syntax will be the > same, only the sematics are changed), but the proper conversion of > non-escaped characters to escaped ones and vice versa in lyx2lyx and in > LyX. > I don't see how that introduces duplicate work if it is done now, or how it > could become easier with XML.
The idea is to manage the number of fixes to a reasonable level. If the code is localized and simple we could/should consider them. Is this OK? > > > Then I have more or less finished support for esint that I need for my > > > thesis: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2108 > > > Current support for integrals other than \int in LyX is a mess. symbols > > > from several not matching fonts are used. > > > > Do you have a patch for this? I would like to consider it if yes. > > I have an old tree with this, I need to update it to produce a patch. I > will do that in the next days. Thanks. > Well, what is also missing is the code that does the cleanup. If we only > implement a maximum life time it will be trivial, but if we consider a > maximum cache size as well I don't know how much work it is. We can go with the simple solution for now. That is have this code not active by default, and if people are interested they can turn it on and manage the space for now. > > > The navigation across child documents is also stable, but it has the > > > problem that it causes all child documents to be loaded if you open the > > > master, and this can take some time. Either we need to speed up loading > > > a document (actually I don't know why it is so slow), or we need to > > > implement loading of child documents in the background. > > > > This would be nice. I assume the code is simple, right? > > Yes. Good. :-) > > If I give green light for this what needs to be done? What help do you > need > > from others? > > I'd like to have help with the cache management as outlined above and with > profiling the slowness when opening all child docs automatically. The rest > of the work needs either to be done in my old tree, or is testing which > will happen automatically once the stuff is in. > > I'll send the patches for further judgements when I got them out of the old > tree. Thank you. > Georg -- José Abílio
