Hello,
Coming back to refstyle again, I wrote a short example to test the recent
improvements made by Danie Els to the package (as far as LyX is concerned,
mostly relaxation of the requirement to load babel before refstyle).
I've posted the example as the last attachment to bug #6609 (sorry for my German
in section 1.3).
While testing, I discovered that the sub: prefix was not correctly dealt with,
because the fallback command (used in that case because refstyle does not know
about sub: labels):
\AtBeginDocument{\providecommand\subref[1]{\ref{#1}}}
refers to a prefix-stripped label.
I've posted on bug #6609 a patch fixing this.
IMHO, LyX should provide a formatted reference for subsections (such labels must
be quite frequent in standard documents) with
--- src/LaTeXFeatures.cpp.orig 2010-11-08 16:51:25.000000000 +0100
+++ src/LaTeXFeatures.cpp 2010-11-08 16:53:17.000000000 +0100
@@ -257,6 +257,9 @@
"\\newcommand{\\ogonek}[1]{\\mathpalette\\doogonek{#1}}\n");
static docstring const lyxref_def = from_ascii(
+ "\...@ifundefined{subref}\n"
+ " {\\def\\RSsubtxt{subsection~}\\newref{sub}{name =
\\RSsubtxt}}\n"
+ " {}\n"
"\...@ifundefined{thmref}\n"
" {\\def\\RSthmtxt{theorem~}\\newref{thm}{name =
\\RSthmtxt}}\n"
" {}\n"
Moreover, if I run from the root of the lyx source:
# find lib/layouts -exec grep RefPrefix {} \;|awk '{print $2}' |sort -u
maybe there are some other prefixes which could be managed with.
As far as translations are concerned, you will notice that I added in the
preamble of test_multilingual_refstyle.lyx the lines:
\RSaddto{\RSfrench}{%
\def\RSsubtxt{sous-section~}%}
\def\RSthmtxt{th\'{e}or\`{e}me~}%
}
\RSaddto{\RSgerman}{%taht
\def\RSsubtxt{Unterabschnitt~}%
\def\RSthmtxt{Lehrsatz~}%}
}
The question of how to provide the required translations for the languages is
thus raised, if not done by each and every LyX user.
For languages already known to refstyle (afrikaans, danish, english, british,
canadian, french, german, ngerman, austrian, naustrian, italian, norwegian,
nynorsk, bokmal, norsk, portuges, brazil, swedish as of version 0.5), the
\RSaddto command does it: I thought that defining a .inc file containing theses
translations (and possibly also the snippet of code introduced in
LaTeXFeatures.cpp) would allow translators to add their own translations, but up
to now, I couldn't make it work properly.
For languages unknown to refstyle, refstyle.cfg must be changed (or copied to
refstyle.def which is loaded instead of refstyle.cfg since version 0.4).
Can LyX distribute the refstyle.def file ? I see a tex directory in the LyX
distribution which could hold this refstyle.def file.
In that line, I think that it would be better to translate all the strings
defined in refstyle (needed for inside a sentence, at the beginning of a
sentence and plurals) instead of just translating the most common one.
Implementation of plurals in LyX needs to be able to define ranges of references
in the menu and thus quite a bit of work, but introducing formatted references
at the beginning of sentences is simple (maybe just one more line in the
selection of the type of the reference) so it could be implemented soon.
Translation of beginning-of-sentence strings from English is NOT a simple
capitalization (and I'm not sure that this was well understood by translators,
see e.g. the Italian translation in refstyle.cfg).
Lastly, the par/part and cha/chap issue is still open...
--
Jean-Pierre
