On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 09:51:12PM +0000, Vaclav Smidl wrote:
> First, it seems a little bit broken. It crashes on inserting maths, on any
I'm afraid it's extremely broken. Currently it's likely that it will be
backed out before the next stable release, if that happens.
It's purely an issue of no resources available to fix the problems.
> Is the code in the middle of some transitional period and I should rather
> wait, or is it just "normally" broken and I should fill bug reports?
File bug reports anyway.
> Second, I am a bit confused about the dependency on dvipost. I think dvipost
> is a great package, however, my prefered backend is pdftex.
> I far as I can see, implementing features of dvipost for pdftex is quite a lot
> of work to do. So, I was wondering if we can support some simpler
> mechanism...
There is no serious package that provides the facilities we need other
than dvipost. Any other packages require a LaTeX expert to create; LyX
support for them is then pretty trivial.
> Would it make any sense to replace \changestart{} by \uline{ (or \uwave{), and
> \changeend{} by } ? Similarly, \sout{ in place of \overstrikeon{}, etc.
> I tried these replacements on my test document and it works quite well. Of
> course, the nice blue side line is lost, but it works with pdftex.
The change bars are an absolute requirement of the feature. Any solution
that does not include them is no solution at all in my eyes.
regards,
john
