On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> It does work only for a part of the kind of math LyX. Try \sqrt[3]{2} for
> starters. Or most of the AMS environments.
I know. It will not do for people written math or physic papers.
However, I think it will do for high-school students solving simple
equations and polynomials.
> And I certainly won't start 'fixing' an external tool.
I can understand that, and I would not recommend that either, unless
you have a bunch of monkeys available.
> > However, using eqascii would be a monotoneous improvement, and just
> > because you can think of an even better improvement should not stop you
> > from picking the lower hanging fruit.
>
> I see it as 100 lines of wasted code and an additional external
> dependencies.
You do not personally see any benefit from it. I won't dispute that. I'm
just saying that I think it would be worth the effort, because it could
help a group of users without high requirements.
Regarding the dependency: It's a weak dependency, like the dependency
of chktex. If you have it, great you can use it. If you don't, that's
not a major loss. A better example might be the graphics ascii renderer
that the external inset can use. Nobody has that, but if you need it,
you will get it.
So the dependency reason is not a good reason to ignore it.
> I certainly appreciate your consideration, it's just that I see no
> sufficient benefit in using 'eqascii'. Not that I don't like it, it is just
> not doing all I want.
Fair enough. I'm not volunteering, and just suggesting you to do work.
It's only fair that you get to decide if it's worth it.
Thanks for your hard work on mathed,
Asger
