Helge Hafting wrote: > Surely, lyx 1.5.0 will have many new features, so a new > file format is to be expected? There will be unicode, > there will be new insets of which nicefrac is only one.
Of course. The question is whether we bump up the file format just for the nicefrac change. > I am not sure that a nicefrac: on/off/auto is that useful, > perhaps you can explain the need, when would you > want to force it off? We had that problem with the wasy package. It conflicts with some other packages. Some have workarounds, so that a certain order of inclusion needs to be honored. This can't be done if the wasy package is automatically loaded, and conflicts with some user loaded package. The solution for this problem is for now: Don't load the wasy package automatically, let the user load it manually. I don't know at all if nicefrac could be problematic, if somebody knows that this is not the case then all is fine. > Is there more to it than > don't use "nice fractions" if you don't like the look? You could provide your own nicefrac command in the preamble for example. Or you could load it manually (see above), or there is another package that provides a nicefrac command. I think we should in general avoid to add new packages to LaTeXFeatures unless the already existing conflicts are solved and we have a more flexible package loading mechanism. The more package syou load automatically, the more conflicts can arise. Georg
