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'