"R. Lahaye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

| This is a patch that removes the LyX-keywords for origin of rotation, and uses the
| short LaTeX ones instead. This means there's no translation necessary between the
| two. However, this implies a change in the graphics inset format.
| For example:
| 
|     rotateAngle leftBottom
| 
| is now
| 
|     rotateAngle lb
| 
| I did this, because we were continuously translating between the GUI-keywords,
| the LyX-keywords, and the LaTeX keywords. This complicated scheme is reduced
| to the commen GUI - LyX/LaTeX conversion, using a Translator for that.
| 
| Patch attached.
| 
| The patch updates also Qt, but QGraphicsDialog.ui needs further modification
| for the origin choice list.
| 
| -----------------------------
| 
| I'm very much tempted to simplify the graphics inset format even more. Why do
| we use new LyX keywords that have a one-to-one overlap with the corresponding
| LaTeX keywords? Why not staying as close to LaTeX as possible?

LyX is not LaTeX and we should not bind ourselves to close to latex in
_any_ way.

| No, reducing the readability of the lyx file should not be an issue.
| Eventually the lyx file will be saved via a zip filter and is then
| unreadable anyway.

I am not so sure about that...

-- 
        Lgb

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