JMark,
> Who are you to decide that they appreciate variation? Let them choose
> whether they do!
As I am Chinese and also am the maintainer of a special MiKTeX bundle called
MiCTeX for Chinese users (which takes special care of all relevant packages
which LyX might need to run), I might stand up to say something here about the
"C" of CJK support.
Nowadays there are a number of document classes supporting Chinese in LaTeX.
Besides using the standard document classes like article, book, report etc with
the aid of CJK, we sometimes also use documentclasses like
cctart cctbook ctexart ctexbook ctexreport (for GBK encoding)
or
ctexartutf8 ctexbookutf8 ctexreportutf8 (for UTF8 encoding)
These extra document classes depends on CJK implicitly which means that one
needs not add \usepackage{CJK} in the preamble and also needs not to put
\begin{CJK}{GBK}{} after \begin{document} and \end{CJK} before \end{document}.
These document classes are much more popular among Chinese users than using the
standard documentclasses with the aid of CJK, because better sectioning and
numbering systems are implemented in the cct and ctex series of classes.
Therefore, I strongly suggest that LyX should remove all the hard codes which
explicitly refers to the use of CJK packages and only takes care that the
correct Chinese characters can be imported/exported with appropriate encodings.
If this to be the case we can make our own .layout files to make use of any of
the above-mentioned cct or ctex series of classes.
Thanks and regards,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
2008-06-06
