On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:59:55AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > What does 'refuse to use tracking' mean here? Tracking can be very > useful even when one cannot run latex.
Yes. > 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. This might be tricky to do (you'd have to text search throughoout the whole document) > John, why is the 'change tracking' toggle useful from an UI point of > view? Does there need to be a change tracking mode? I don't understand. How would things work otherwise ? Did you try it yet ? :) You cannot modify original text in change-tracking mode etc. > 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. It's certainly generally useful (and even does things that lyx doesn't use at all). > 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? I've mentioned this to him before but he didn't reply to that specific point. He has a freshmeat entry, but I agree it should go on CTAN. regards john
