On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:55:45PM +0930, Will Robertson wrote:
> I'm surprised, and happy, to hear that you use T1 only when possible.
Yes, if you launch LyX from a console and look at the output when
reconfiguring, you will see that a check for EC fonts is being made.
If you are not comfortable with T1 encoding, you can change that in
the preferences.
> Surely just checking for LM doesn't trigger installation under
> MiKTeX?!
Yes, this is so when MiKTeX is configured for installing packages
on the fly.
> Instead of using kpsewhich, couldn't you just mechanically
> search for the actual files? (After all, you can get the base
> directory of the texmf tree in a number of different ways.)
This is not so simple now that LyX is multi-platform. On Windows,
there's no kpathsea library available, for example.
> On 31/07/2008, at 10:45 PM, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> >
> > I don't think that they should be set as default. When you create a
> > new document, the corresponding latex file should ideally be
> >
> > \documentclass{article}
> > \begin{document}
> > \end{document}
> >
> > no more, no less.
>
>
> Can I enquire about the general philosophy of LyX given the above
> statement? There's not a problem with it, of course, but I'm left
> wondering "why?" :)
This is a path of least surprise, but you are not condemned to it,
as you can save any file you tweak at your heart desire as a document
template and then use "File->New from Template" to have your preferred
layout automatically set up in new files.
> Personally, since LaTeX is so hard to master with all its packages, I
> would have thought you'd want to steer LyX users into the more
> fruitful areas (such as hyperref) that are currently a little tricky
> to get "just right".
This is done in the development version. After all, this is an evolving
project and you can't just have all bells and whistles already in place.
Moreover, this being a free source project, the best way to get what
you want is that of submitting a patch, or waiting that some developer
scratches the same itch affecting you ;-)
> As it stands you still need to be a LaTeX expert to get all of the
> nice things (or thereabouts).
This is true for every software, even when using Word you must
properly master it for getting the best ;-)
--
Enrico
