On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 12:55:36PM -0400, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>
> On 6/11/23 07:05, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 04:30:34AM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > >
> > > Thanks, Enrico, I like it! I see two options, one nice and one not nice:
> > >
> > > 1. Do lyx2lyx. I think we would just need to copy the LyX box to the
> > > LaTeX box when the LaTeX box is empty.
> >
> > I don't think this is a good idea. The LyX representation may be
> > different from the TeX definition. The right lyx2lyx behavior should be
> > simply removing the macro definition if the TeX part is empty but not
> > the LyX part. One would loose the nice representation but everything
> > still works.
> >
> > > 2. Commit the patch as is and claim it was a bug that LyX included
> > > the definition even when the LaTeX box was empty. I did not check if
> > > the current behavior is documented.
> >
> > It is not strictly a bug because one might want to simply remove the
> > argument of the macro. The point is that in this case it is simpler to
> > define the macro in the preamble (\def\name{}) rather than cluttering
> > the main text. I bet nobody has ever defined a math macro with an empty
> > definition in the body of the text. But even in this case the solution
> > would be inserting "{}" in the definition rather than leaving it empty.
> >
> > > I suppose (1) is the best? I wonder if some users rely on the
> > > current behavior for the case where they want the LyX and LaTeX
> > > boxes to be the same, because this way when they change the macro,
> > > they just need to change it in one place (the LyX display), instead
> > > of needing to make sure their LaTeX def and LyX def are in sync.
> >
> > Yes, (1) seems to be the best but because it guarantees backward
> > compatibility (in the sense that exporting to older versions produces
> > still working documents). However, no round-trip is possible, unless
> > recording the macro definition in a TeX comment in the preamble and then
> > restoring it when converting forward.
>
> Committed the patch along with the lyx2lyx.Great, thanks for taking care of the lyx2lyx! > Thanks, Enrico. I really needed this, actually. I'll find this helpful also. The workaround was a bit annoying. Scott
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
-- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
