[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Andreas K. wrote:
>
>> lamikr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> What do you think, would it be possible to add a support for more
>>> free-er usage of spaces and enter lines in the Lyx editor, without
>>> changing the way how they are really treated in the final DVI/PDF
>>> output?
>>
>> A simple answer: No.
>>
>> A more detailed answer: No. It's against the fundamental philosophy
>> of LyX.
>
> Don't feel discouraged. Perhaps if you rephrase what you want, there
> might be an alternative solution?
One way I could argument in favor of this are code editors and different
code formats people have.
(50% of the people say that "{" must be in the if line with if, while
other 50% say that it must be in the next line, and both of them are
right...)
To help in this kind of situations, most of the code editors (Eclipse
for example) have nowadays code formatters, which
allow the developer to see the code written by others in the format they
have used to do.
And as I see the Lyx editor anyway as a smart code editor for Latex, I
would not think it being against the WYSIWYM principles Lyx try to
follow if it would allow writers to set some more "air" to their text in
the editor side. Instead I see that Lyx would just came smarter than
normal editors as it would allow the writing of latex "source code" in
Lyx editor a more flexible way while still guarantee the coherent output
and that could actually be a
KILLER FEATURE
for some more artistic persons than I to assist them to get their
keyboard, ideas and text fly faster than the screen can scroll :-)
