On 2017-04-11, Richard Heck wrote: > On 04/11/2017 04:20 PM, Guenter Milde wrote: >> On 2017-04-11, PhilipPirrip wrote: >>> On 04/11/2017 11:23 AM, Stephan Witt wrote:
>>> My proposal of having "a general sheet where one could send options to >>> (the calls of) this and that package would be a good way to go - that >>> means, not by just using \SendOptionsToPackage" will be a freestyle >>> sheet, where one would have a text input field for the package name, and >>> a text input field for all the options that need to be passed to it. >>> packageA: optionA1, optionA2=false, optionA3 >>> packageB: optionB1 >>> packageC: optionC1=whatever >>> etc >> We already have a "general sheet for package options", it's called >> "latex preamble" and uses a syntax that is >> * more versatile, and >> * better documented >> than any home-brew alternative (it's LaTeX). >> Options that need to be known to LyX internally need special input (e.g. >> the input encoding and the font encoding or lenght that are taken into >> account in the GUI). >> Another reason for special dialogue elements is the task to provide a >> consistent interface to alternative packages or commonly required >> features >> However, if there is no added value in a LyX-specific interface, it's >> better to keep the "advanced" and "exotic" settings for the user >> preamble. Then, users can drag-and-drop LaTeX solutions from >> stackexchange, say. > I haven't followed this all that closely, but the one reason to have a > special "options" field like this is that one sometimes runs into the > problem that, if you put stuff in the preamble, it loads too late. Is > that an issue here or not? You are right, stuff that is "too late" in the preamble is another reason for special handling. But maybe a generic solution (aka "pre-preamble") would be the better choice for these cases. However, this is not a problem with "fontspec options". (Mind that the subject line is somewhat misleading, the patch enables adding options to fontspec's font selection commands, not to the fontspec package call.) Günter
