On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:30 PM, aparsloe <apars...@clear.net.nz> wrote: > If an instant preview inset is wrapped around something that produces empty > LaTeX output, the preview inset becomes invisible in the LyX work-area > window, and can sometimes be quite hard to re-locate. > Is this related to: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8636 ?
Liviu > It would be helpful if > a preview inset with *empty* LaTeX output were made visible -- perhaps even > garishly so (bright red, say). When I discovered this invisibility a year or > two ago, it occurred to me then that it could be used maliciously e.g. with > a LaTeX \gobble command. The LyX document would read correctly; the pdf > would be changed. If a word like "not" were deleted from the pdf version of > a large document, it could change the meaning completely yet make a small > enough difference to the overall visual appearance to go unnoticed -- after > all, you expect the LyX text to be faithfully reproduced in the pdf. Where > variations between the LyX text and pdf text occur, the source of that > variation should be clearly visible in LyX (as it is with branches or LyX's > unmissable yellow notes). > > Andrew -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
