On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 02:42:35PM +0300, Dov Feldstern wrote: > José Matos wrote: > >On Friday 20 July 2007 09:42:40 Michael Gerz wrote: > >>Hmpf.... wasn't the removal of the const-ness the major reason why my > >>change tracking patch was rejected? > >> > >>Michael > > > >You are right. It seems that we need some kind of state machine to run > >across latex/docbook generation. And the OutputParams is not the answer. > > > > Long term, we certainly need to do some major rethinking of the whole > latex generation, IMO. The current situation seems very fragile. I'm not > sure what the problem is or how to make this easier, but here are some > thoughts on this.
A newline-counting stream might already help a bit. I guess that's a nice little project for Bromarv for me. > Finally, we may also need a third object, which represents the current > state of the output mechanism: e.g., the current encoding. Regardless of > what LyX or latex thinks the current encoding is (or maybe they don't > even care), the output mechanism must know how the character it's about > to output is going to be encoded. Could be done by the outputstream itself, too. Andre'
