On Monday 30 June 2003 7:42 pm, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > The problem is that this package implements something which is not > really latex, but a subset of latex. For example, I may want to write > te\TeX (name of a famous distribution). I arabic context, this is > forbidden, and I shall write "te \TeX". This means that one should add > code in a lot of places to add spacing before _all_ macros. This is > not possible because: > > - that's a lot of work > - in the non-arabic context, it will give bad output. > > I think that this macro package is code that works 'by chance', when > you actually know what you do. It is very very difficult to use this > in LyX (I am sure that even if this particular problem was solved, > another one would crop up). Yeah! I understand the problem now. But can I argue that if we exclude some odd situations like te\TeX,..., it's considered good output to have formatting tags like center,... to be in a newline. Though, this won't solve the problem completely but will let LyX usable to Arab users to a tolerable extent.
> I think that someone (maybe the people at arabeye.org) should take a > look at this problem. I am willing to accept ``reasonable'' solutions. > > JMarc -- __/ __/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _\ _/ _\ _/ _/ \ / _\ unzir _/ aha Telecommunications Engineer Linux Registered User [EMAIL PROTECTED]://counter.li.org CIW, ICDL, MOUS. New Horizons CLC Riyadh, SA
