----- Original Message ----- From: "Helge Hafting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Huaiyu Duan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:07 AM Subject: Re: ugly latex code
> Huaiyu Duan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I use LyX a lot to document what I have done or write short technical > > notes. It really saves time for me againts checking the grammar of > > latex code. However, there is a problem when it comes to submiting > > papers to journals. The equation part of the latex code exported by LyX > > is really ugly and hard to read. I don't dare to send the file to any > > journal directly but have to beautify it manually. I wonder if there is > > a way to do the work automatically? Thanks!. > > The journal actually cares what the latex code itself looks like, as > opposed to what the document looks like? Sounds a bit odd . . . They have to care about the code, because they may need to manually edit the code before the publishing. > > Note that you don't have to use the math editor - you can write > your equations in ERT. That might be faster if you > feel a need to rewrite them anyway. > The whole reason I am using lyx is that it saves me time when it comes to equations. If I have to use ERT box, I would rather use emacs. > * If you're good at latex, you just write the formula as latex in an ERT box. > * You may write the formula in the math editor, cut it and > paste into an ERT box. Then "beautify" it. > > You may want to try a web search for "latex pretty-printer", > but it seems to mostly turn up programs that pretty-prints > other programming languages in latex. I did and got the same result. It is a little bit wierd. Latex is more or less like a programming language, but no one writes a beautifying script for it. Is is possible to include the feature into LyX in the future? > > Helge Hafting > >
