El 29.04.2017 a las 16:52, Guenter Milde escribió:
I also object "fighting ERT/preamble code" at any cost.
That is a very vague sentence. Of course LyX supports things that we developers use. Jürgen as a linguist takes care of BibTeX and friends because this is his daily work. Without him LyX would surely have less support for LaTeX commands in this area.
I am a physicist and engineer. I therefore have to to a lot with mathematical and also chemical formulas and equations. Therefore I am active in this area.
I don't like that we vote for LaTeX code we support. Every ERT that can be avoided is a good thing. I mean some users would need support for colored table cells, but maybe you don't use tables frequently. Would it be OK if you vote against such a feature? No because LaTeX offers this and it is a reasonable request to support what LaTeX offers.
I don't want a vote if support for the 2 generic document class options for math typesetting is worth it or not. Many people use it and LaTeX offers them because they are useful. It cannot be to deny support for things and to force users to read our very large manuals carefully to learn what is possible (sec. 17 of the LyX math manual in this case) just because we might not use them personally.
BTW: how is the leqno setting handled in LyXHTML and text export?
JMarc is working on the on-screen representation. Note that the formula number never appeared in text export. I am wondering that plain text output is something we really care about. This is not what LyX was once designed for - to be a frontend for LaTeX that allows you to use LaTeX without the need to know anything about LaTeX.
Concerning the output in LyXHTML, the formula number output placement is already incorrect without leqno. eLyXer does it correctly. So there is in general room for improvement (as with some other LyXHTML issues like image float output). That should not hinder use the provide support for math layout settings. A better HTML numbering output can be added also during the LyX 2.3 life cycle.
regards Uwe
