On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 11:57:50AM +0100, Georg Baum wrote:
> > I wonder whether a 'drawSymbol' function would not have been 
> > better documentation...
> 
> Yes, I thought about that. I did not do it, because you would need several 
> ones (in mathed and frontend, and also for metrics), the code would be 
> exactly identical to the existing methods, and you would need to introduce 
> a switch in InsetMathSymbol that decides whether to use drawSymbol or 
> drawText (which both would do the same). That did not look like a good 
> solution to me and prone to somebody doing some "cleanup".

Ok. I just wanted to make sure somebody actually spent a thought on
this.

> A real solution would probably use two different insets for real symbols 
> (drawn with symbol fonts) and functions and unknown symbols, but I did not 
> want to do that at this time.

Sounds ok, though.

Andre'

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