On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:53:08AM -0500, Richard E. Hawkins wrote: > My general thinking at the moment is that it should exist as a library, > rather than an integral piece of lyx. The catch is I know nothing > about how libraries really work :)
Well, most universities have one... and there are a few public ones, too ;-) > What I'm assuming would happen is that lyx (or whatever other program) > makes an initial initialization call to the library, and passes it a > table of functions. mm would then use these functions to control lyx. > In particular, it would need to be able to > a) search > b) replace > c) ask for current location > d) order insertion of a file at a location > e) move to a specified location. > f) ask for read data (fuzzy thought. Search can find the inset/string/ > whatever that marks MM commands, but mm needs to be able to > translate them. Part of this should be do-able using the lyx server already. s&r probably is not, but if it really isn't, it should be fixed. Andre' -- André Pönitz .............................................. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
