On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 09:21:51AM +1200, Michael Koziarski wrote:
>
> >The conversion is important.
> >Perhaps the problem is that there aren't many developers which know perl well.
>
> Um, I do. I program perl & python for a living. Is there a bug / feature
> request for reLyx anywhere? I could have a poke around and see what I can
> do.
Aha! Caught you!
There are some bugs mentioned in the reLyX man page. There's also a BUGS
file in lib/reLyX in the distribution. Since then, there have been several
gazillion messages about it, some of which I might be able to forward to
you.
Near the beginning of this thread, Dekel gave a list of new LyX features that
aren't supported by reLyX yet. You might want to play with some of those
too. Also talk to Andre about what Mathed now supports or doesn't -- you may
be able to get rid of the reLyXmt{} in syntax.defaults. (Actually, you
shouldn't get rid of it, since people might want to put their own personal
commands in there that aren't supported by Mathed. But he may have added
support for what's there currently.)
There are actually several *classes* of reLyX problems:
- new LyX features, as above
- things not supported by reLyX guts: Text::TeX (which is very very old and
I changed only a bit from the v0.01 I got from CPAN) doesn't support
anything very complicated in [], for example, which means you can lose
stuff.
- LaTeX things LyX can't do: my favorite example is \section[foo]{bar},
which is supposedly going to be supported someday.
- Things that are difficult to translate exactly into LyX. I think there
have been a couple of threads on the difficulties of \centering vs.
\begin{center}, for example.
- ... much much more
Seriously, if you poke around a bit and decide it' s not totally hopeless,
I could go through my mail/relyx folder and find you a bunch more. I would
be thrilled to know someone's taken over for my slacking, and a bunch of the
hardcore LaTeXers on the list would be happy too.
-Amir
