Alex Fernandez wrote: > Hi all, > > On a suggestion from Uwe Stöhr I am planning to import the whole file > lib/unicodesymbols found in LyX distributions. Not the code per se, > but the information within -- I hope that is OK for LyX developers, > especially for contributors Georg Baum, Uwe Stöhr and Jürgen > Spitzmüller. Anyway the file is under GPLv2 or later, so distributing > it under GPLv3 would be safe. But better safe than sorry. > > The improvements in eLyXer will be to automatically have a lot of math > commands translated to the correct Unicode symbols, therefore > improving the output greatly with little effort. And for LyX to have > an improved LyX-to-HTML converter. Anyone have anything against?
Of course you are free to use that file in any way that is compatible with the license. For practical reasons, I would strongly suggest not to import the information, but to use the file as is. That way, it will be easy to exchange additions/fixes in both directions. Please note that a python parser does exist already: development/tools/unicodesymbols.py. If you need to store some additional information, it might be interesting for LyX as well, and the format is not set into stone. If you import the information and maintain your own version, the two sources will diverge rather sooner or later, and that would be a pity. Georg
