On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 05:00:41PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 09:56:00AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > > I am glad to see the about and preference dialogs. Bug 717 has not been > > fixed, (C-M on \alpha causes compiling error.) is it scheduled to be > > fixed before 1.3?
> Not really as I don't consider it a bug. > You ask for \alpha in text mode and get the same result as entering \alpha > in ERT in text mode. I have expressed my opinion before but I would like to say it again. Yes, it is user's fault but if this mistake is so easy to make (in a formula, C-M to enter some text, enter some math without C-M again) and so difficult to identify (lyx displays and saves/loads it 'correctly'!), should lyx be nice enough to do something? What makes a fix reasonable is that lyx 1.2 gracefully allows users to enter \alpha,\sum etc without worrying about text or math mode and we are spoiled! When I encountered this problem in lyx1.3, my only thought was a bug. Put this to an extreme, whatever users can enter into lyx 'normally' through keyboard, menu, (preamble, ERT do not count here), they should not expect compiling errors. Is this reasonable? There is another similar example we have discussed before, user opens a new document, insert math-case, compiling error! It is very difficult to do this with latex but we should at least go this direction. If you are not going to fix this problem, would you at least warn the users in whatsnew.txt? (I doubt how many people will read it though.) -- Bo Peng
