On 12/14/20 1:54 PM, José Abílio Matos wrote:
On Monday, December 14, 2020 5:46:52 PM WET Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
> I think that the real reason that we use this scheme is due to how we
> represent insets in the file format, we always change line.
>
> That is what IMO forbids the equivalence between spaces and newlines
in the
> lyx file format.
>
>
> If we find a solution for the previous questions this can be
implemented in
> lyx2lyx.
>
> The obvious thing to do would be always to break lines at spaces.
But then
> how do we handle the case of languages that don't use spaces to separate
> words?
One simple example to illustrate what I mean, even assuming that the
space is our word separator. What should be the file format of the
latex paragraph?
The most famous equation of all times is $E=mc^2.$
How do we represent the space between "is" and the math inset?
Now we do (pardon me the markdown syntax :-) ):
``` lyx
\begin_layout Standard
The most famous equation of all times is
\begin_inset Formula $E=mc^{2}.$
\end_inset
\end_layout
```
What would be the alternative? To have a space before the
\begin_layout? That does not seem right and it would complicate our
parsing a lot.
The option I am thinking, although a bit ugly, would be:
``` lyx
\begin_layout Standard
The most famous equation of all times is
\space
\begin_inset Formula $E=mc^{2}.$
\end_inset
\end_layout
```
That would mean that we have a special syntax for a line with a single
space.
I hadn't considered this case. It will also occur, of course, with
footnotes and, indeed, every kind of inset. I can't think of any
reasonable alternative to your solution. We could presumably write
\space at the end of the previous line, but I think that would be harder
to implement. The lyx2lyx part would actually be quite simple. The
changes to the parser, and to the write routines, would be more involved.
Riki
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