On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 09:53:54AM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > So I'd rather have AMS detection completely removed from validate(), but > > - for convenience reasons as probably most users don't care - switched on > > by default. This way it is possible to disable AMS if it is really not > > wanted and everybody can get want he wants. > > So, you are worried about sometimes AMS getting switched on erroneously, > and as a solution you want to switch it on always... with the option of > manually switching it off?
I do not care for the default, but I care about the wrong detection and having no way to switch it of. > Whatever it is, what you propose is not a 'solution' to the 'problem' > described... Of course it is. Which case is not covered? > I think we discussed this way back. What about combining auto-detection > with a "suppress AMS" checkbutton? And if validate fails to auto-detect, > you can still put it manually in the preamble... but our aim should be, > like with ERT, to make that unnecessary. (Be aware that the condition > where auto-detection fails, *cannot be handled* by a person without some > LaTeX background knowledge.) This is a solution, too, but I fail to see how this is better. > While waiting for that to happen, we could anyway still have one more > button "force AMS", like the AMS button we have now. Sure... buttons for everything when on button suffices... > Or combine these into radio buttons "use autodetection > (default)"/"suppress"/"force". (Although, as said, I wouldn't expect a > "dummy user" to recognize a situation where the third button should be > pressed, so I'm not sure it would be all that useful.) > > Sounds like a plan? No. To complicated. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
