Jose' Matos wrote:
On Friday 22 July 2005 09:33, Axel Rasche wrote:
What I like about LyX is that standard work (typing, structure, basic
figures/floats, bibtex/references) is done by an easy editor (although
not completely wysiwyG). At the same time the whole LaTeX world is open
to you. One can add any particular LaTeX-package.
This fortune does not show up, when starting out in LaTeX with an editor
like LyX (means LyX does a good job by hiding the compiling stuff). But
if you continue, you will see that for any particular issue in
typesetting is solved by a particular LaTeX-package.
Do not forget also that LyX has also some other requirements that are not
shared by any single user. If we support some package we should expect it
to be available everywhere or else the same LyX document would not give a
printable output if you change your system.
Not only that but sometimes different packages have different calls across
several versions. All this should be taken into account before providing
the LyX support for any package.
there is only _one_ rule: every TeX source should give
the same output on every system. This depends to the
core TeX, but not to the packages. If you want to be
_really_ sure, then you shouldn't support any package,
otherwise the above rule (from D. Knuth) is senseless.
Supporting packages is nowadays appropriate, but always
a kind of living on the edge ... because you do not
really know, what the package author has in mind. But
one is sure, TeX is the same ...
Herbert
