On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 06:15:36PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote:
> I am in the process of converting a bigger document with tex2lyx. In order
> to make it work, I had to do the following changes (see attached patch):
>
> - add \text{] and \fbox{} support to math.C
> - allow parsing of partial documents (for inclusion with \input}
> - steal commandline switch -c from reLyX to support the previous point
> - add support for lengths with comma (4,5cm instead of 4.5cm) to minipage
> environments
> - add support for some math environments like displaymath
> - add support for \bibliography command
Looks good.
> The document translates already quite well, but a remaining problem is that
> unknown latex commands "\foo" get translated to "\foo " or even "\foo ".
> This destroys also commands like hspace*{}.
I see...
> This happens because Token::asInput() adds an extra space, and
> parse_text() does this also for unknown tokens.
>
> Why is the space added in Token::asInput()?
Sort of a hack. If you manage to do the 'round trip' on the UserGuide
without, feel free to remove it.
> Should something else (what?) be > used instead where the space hurts?
I'd think we need some 'possibly a space' 'character' that gets
converted to a 'real space if something with catcode=letter follows and
is ingnored otherwise.
Tricky business...
> The patch is work in progress, partly unfinished and contains some ugly
> things like Token::lineno_. I'll send a polished version when everything
> works.
Would be nice.
Andre'
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