On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 01:16:01AM +0200, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > El 06.04.2017 a las 10:39, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes escribió: > > > Here are my comments after the battle: > > Now I found this post. Please send me important posts to me CC.
Uwe, it is not acceptable that you are not subscribed to the list. > > > + New buffer parameters > > > + - \is_formula_indent > > > > The question is not whether the equation is indented, it is whether it > > is flushed left. > > The paramter (and all it incarantion in the code) should be \fleqn or > > \flush_equation or \flush_math > > I took off the developers' hut as you would say. Imagine you go through the > streets asking people what "flush left" means (they might think of the left > toilet flush button ;-). I mean "flush" is nothing people associate with > text editing. We live in the world of MS Word if we like it or not. There > you can either left align text or indent it. People don't care about internal terminology, while developers do. \is_formula_indent is horrible, please change it as suggested. > The output of fleqn are formulas that are put to the left side, but pushed > by 30 pt to the right side. So in effect it is an indentation for most > average users. > > > - \formula_indentation > > > > - (minor) although the term formula is used in the file format, it is a > > remnant of old times (like Style/Layout) that we should not encourage. > > In this case \math_indent is a much better choice, especially since this > > is the LaTeX term. > > Well, this is a matter of taste. For me math is everything, inline and > formulas. Since the indentation is only something for formulas I chose > "formula". Personally, I find LyX's term "displayed equations" meaningless. > What is "displayed", why "equation"? An equation can be inline too. Please, have a look at the TeXbook and other latex literature. > However, I think one could discuss about the terminology a lot but the user > doesn't care what tag we write to the LyX file. I think important is that > other developers can imagine what "formula_indentation" more or less means. I don't know what it is meant as "formula_indentation", while it is clear to me what "math_indent" is. > > - I am really not sure that we need to expose a way to change the value > > of the indentation: this is something that is decided by the class > > author, and it is trivial to change in preamble for people who know what > > they are doing. The idea is "if you do not know how to change it, you > > probably do not need to change it. > > I googled around and I could not find a document class where \mathindent is > changed. Nevertheless, the user is free to change it if he likes to. Please, read again what JMarc said. Who needs changing this, can do it without fuss. Otherwise, why don't we offer a UI way to also change \everypar or other latex internal macros? -- Enrico
