On 09/13/2009 06:24 PM, Alex Fernandez wrote:
Since eLyXer was offered to be integrated with LyX it has gone a long
way.
I'm a little unclear what's meant by "integration" here. Could you
explain? Are we talking about the way that ps2pdf is integrated with
LyX, or something else?
The last version, 0.30, supports Python distutils -- this means
that the eLyXer library can be easily installed in the user's Python
libraries. This might help a lot for getting eLyXer integrated with
LyX without having to actually insert its code there. Also, having to
place the file elyxer.py in a specific directory within LyX is a
suboptimal solution, as some users and integrators have complained:
for every update you have to place elyxer.py into that folder again,
or you lose the integration.
In particular, I don't understand why the situation with elyxer is any
different than the situation with any third-party converter that we
call. You put it somewhere in your path, and voila, LyX finds it,
configures it, etc, etc. I can't see why it would have to go into some
LyX-related directory, or why that would be a moderately good idea. What
is it that I'm missing?
I still dislike the way LyX deals with formats, and haven't found the
time to play with Jürgen's new view options.
Well, I think we all know that there are ways it could be better. Jurgen
knows that, I know that, we all know that. But simply complaining about
it, yet again, doesn't help. And offering to do something, again, that
the overwhelming majority of developers have repeatedly rejected won't
help either.
Richard
