Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> Hello LyXers,
>
> I got an interesting email from Henri Adriaens, a author of powerdot. He
> reports me his problems with the implementation of powerdot for LyX. I
> mean that they are interesting enough to talk about it to make life
> easier for package authors to provide a LyX layout file.
>
> Here is the original email:
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Hi Uwe,
>
> and above all, I don't like it at all that the gui places restrictions
> on the latex that can be used in lyx.
Well, you can do so many nasty things in TeX that the layout files will
always only support a subset. You have to use ERT for all the other stuff,
it is impossible and undesirable to support everything in GUI. Of course
that does not mean that the current possibilities are enough.
> Have a look at the immense
> effort I had to do to support lyx in powerdot, especially the `file'
> method that writes the body of a slide verbatim to a helper file to be
> able to execute it multiple tiles (overlays).
It might have been easier to contact this list earlier and ask for
extensions of the layout file format.
> This is all so much simpler with
> \begin{slide}[method=file]{Title}
> \end{slide}
> \begin{slide}{Title}...
That would be useful indeed. So why not file a bug report?
Georg
