Cyrille Artho wrote:

> Hi Georg,
> I'm not familiar enough with the capabilities of LaTeX macros to be the
> final judge on that, but it seems plausible that macros may work better
> for many features.
> 
> However, it is also desirable to keep the LaTeX code simple. For features
> that are merely related to displaying things (inset open/collapsed, "lyx
> zoom" factor for images), a comment may indeed be the simplest way. If the
> comment is garbled or lost, the default (inset open, 100 % zoom) applies.
> 
> So it may be a fix of both: macros for anything that contains semantics,
> and comments where macros may be more complex and the document semantics
> are not affected?

Yes, one could use macros for things which do not really represent contents. 
However, I am not sure whether the "more simple" argument applies to the 
implementation in tex2lyx, since comments are filtered out at a low level.


Georg

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