On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:53:53PM -0800, Ling Li wrote:

> > don't know if Andrew got an answer.
> Sorry I didn't know that someone had done that before...

That should be "Andrey"  not Andrew, my fault...

> > There is a checkbox "Use AMS Math" in the doc setup (or prefs, I
> > forget).

> Yes I do know that checkbox. My thought about that box was:
> 1. if some environments which require the amsmath package, such as align
> and cases, are included in a LyX file, amsmath should be automatically
> included.

Yes.

> 2. if the user doesn't include anything that intrigues the
> auto-inclusion of amsmath but she/he writes some "evil-red-code" which
> need the package, she/he is responsible for including amsmath by using
> either that checkbox or the preamble.

Yes.

There is another case: what if a user creates his *own* "\cases" command
? Then the auto-detection could break his document. However,  this is
just like case 2), the user simply disables "Automatically use AMS math
package", and that is that.

> (I hope I am not raising some kind of flame.)

Don't worry, I will take the heat ! :)

regards,
john

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