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