On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 02:12:42PM +0000, Angus Leeming wrote:
> Is this your way of saying that the problem lies in mathed itself? 
> Ie, it would go away if we had control over the 'true' passed to the 
> WriteStream c-tor.

We could certainly use that, but I don't know what the 'nice' flag is good
for, either. I thought it is _just_ for linebreaking, so the question
whether \lyxlock should get written should not depend on that flag.

> Here's a minimal "solution" from the preview end rather than the 
> mathed end. We currently generate a latex file for preview-latex by:
> 
> 1 Dump LyX preamble.
> 2 Dump the math-macros
> 3 Add preview-latex magic
> \begin{document}
> 4 Dump all previewable snippets.
> \end{document}
> 
> A hack might be to redefine \lyxlock between 1 and 2 as an empty 
> wrapper. Care to suggest a bit of LaTeX that would do this?

\def\lyxlock{} 

That can even go to the top of the file.

> Alternatively, we could post-process the data passed to os by the 
> math insets before it is dumped to file to remove these lyxlocks. 
> That, however, sounds nastier.

Nah...

Andre'

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