>>>>> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:11:15AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes John> wrote: >> | Please tell me how to disable changelog stuff based on the latex >> config, | and I'll make a patch to do this. >> >> Refuse to build is not really and option, even if I mentioned it. >> Refuse to use tracking might be helpful. What does 'refuse to use tracking' mean here? Tracking can be very useful even when one cannot run latex. What we could do now, though, is to require "dvipost" only when we have some change insets, not when change tracking is on. This would make things simpler, I think. John, why is the 'change tracking' toggle useful from an UI point of view? Does there need to be a change tracking mode? John> I think you're correct ... I just am not sure how. I assume it's John> quite obvious, but I did look briefly when I was doing this and John> didn't see how. If we want to know which packages are available, all we need to do is to parse the packages.lst file, which is quite easy (of course, we may want to add more info in this file). Then we open a can of worm wrt what we want to do with this file. This is the whole problem of allowing to use features when the relevant package is not installed. John> The "reduced output" doesn't make a *whole* lot of sense unless John> we elide deleted text (strikethrough without the dvipost doesn't John> work well either). Not sure how easy that is - probably not John> possible. We could just use colors... >> | > - we distribut dvipost.sty as part of lyx and make latex find >> it >> | >> | Hrmm. I'll wash my hands of this bit. >> >> Hmm... and where did all this ui focus go now? This is part of the >> ui John> I mean: I'm not going to be responsible for any decision to ship John> external source with LyX. Unless this is really something to be used only with LyX. In general, I think that shipping latex things with LyX is to be avoided. John> It is not hard to install. We don't ship preview-latex (and in John> fact we don't test for that either, though it woould certainly John> be nice to do so). John> Ideally we could find somebody to make RPMs. Yes, it would be nice if the original author could create (maybe with our help) some rpms. And more importantly, could you ask him to upload his package to ctan? This is the best way to have this eventually find its way in distributions like teTeX. It may be necessary to ask teTeX people to add it (although in this case it may need support for kpathsearch library). JMarc
