On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 04:34:53PM +0100, Georg Baum wrote: > Am Sonntag, 5. November 2006 15:46 schrieb Enrico Forestieri: > > I am trying to say that, currently, LyX is not correctly tracking > > catcodes > > and if we want to improve on that, then we should maintain the 256. > > Yes, I understood that, but I don't think that this will be improved in the > near future. Tracking catcodes correctly would probably not be easy, and > only be importamnt for a very small number of users. > > > As an example, try importing in LyX the attached valid latex file and you > > will see what I mean. This is a bug, IMO. > > Yes, that is a bug, but it is impossible to improve tex2lyx in such a way > that all valid TeX files are imported correctly. Many people have tried to > create a real TeX parser, and nobody succeeded. tex2lyx has far more > serious bugs IMO, for example it almost completely ignores encodings. > Therefore I do not plan to fix this at all, but if you want to do that you > are welcome. > > I believe that the comment is now clear, and everybody who wants to have a > go at tracking catcodes knows what to do.
Then I'll shut up. However, I think that the same change from 256 to 128 should also be done in texparser.C, for consistency. -- Enrico
