On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 04:42:26PM +0200, Georg Baum wrote:
> There is one big difference between 1.3 and 1.4 concerning cut and paste: 
> In 1.3 we have separate clipboards for text and mathed. In 1.4 we have 
> only one, and math stuff is stored using the LaTeX representation. This 
> is not my doing,

Indeed. This was part of the IU thingy. Math used to get stored in the
LaTeX representation since at least 1.2.

> I only completed the missing bits.
> The advantage over 1.3 is that you can now transfer text snippets between 
> text and math. The disadvantage is that you can't copy a formula without 
> overwriting the text clipboard, and we expose the internal representation 
> to the user.

Which I found quite handy (and most certainly not annoying) when 
working with non-LyX LaTeX people. Formulas/formula snippets are
much simpler transferable this way, even simpler then using an
external editor on the .lyx file.

Andre'

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