Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 12:46:55PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
>> Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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| ...
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>> >> If at all possible I'd like to avoid all layout changes now.
>> >> what are the implications?
>> >
>> | 1) LtR should remain unaffected. Business as usual.
>> | 2) It will be possible to define label strings that depend on the
>> | language of the document. Currently used to revert the
>> | section/sub/sub-sub order for Hebrew; but could be generalized.
>> >
>> | It looks like this:
>> >
>> | LabelString "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL
>> PROTECTED]@.\arabic{subsection}}"
>> >
>> | [Note that "hebrew" refers to language, "arabic" to number type. Quite
>> | different thing]
>> >
>> | So at this point we should decide if we want such an extension to the
>> | format, and if it should look like this. I dislike hardwiring Hebrew
>> | into the LyX code, as we have in some places today. Fixing the section
>> | header bug without this format change would require such hardwiring.
>>
>> Note that inside LyX "hebrew" is sometimes used instead of "rtl".
>>
>> How is all this solved in 1.3.x?
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| It isn't. These numeric labels just come out in Latin order (which thus
| violates WYSIWYG, but may be OK with WYSIWYM). But... earlier it worked,
| I believe. Look at the patch
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http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/src/counters.C.diff?r1=1.7&r2=1.8
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| where I import a large piece of code from somewhere else that does a
| number of Hebrew things. E.g. enumerate labels, and the letters for
| appendices become Hebrew. This is probably where I broke it.
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| This stuff was originally in text2.C and looked like this:
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http://www.lyx.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/lyx-devel/src/text2.C.diff?r1=1.241&r2=1.242
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| where there is at least an attempt to output Hebrew letters for
| appendix labels. And there 'langtype', is defined, on which enumerate
| labels depended; later we somehow lost this and they stopped working.
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| So, concludingly, I am pretty sure some of this (at least the enum
| stuff, and appendix number labels, which my patch doesn't even address
| yet) worked right around version 1.2. I could prepare a patch only fixing
| those two things if you like... but the .[Ch] stuff of it would look
| just the same as in this one.
My main reaons for being so unwilling is the changes to the .layout
format. It really looks like a cludge to me. (even the existing one)
--
Lgb
