From: Kenneth Rohde Christiansen (kenneth@gnu.org)
Date: Mon Jan 13 2003 - 15:27:24 EST
This is not exactly what I mean. In LyX math isnt handled by a
component, but instead the word processor has a math mode. Ie. you type
Ctrl+m and a small box pops up and you can enter math formulars in it.
This makes it very easy to have math between your text.
I guess you have to try it out in order to understand what I mean. But
there is no component, so you cannot move it around by mistake, or as
was it a picture. Instead you can copy part of the math, as was it text.
You can also copy math and text at the same time. Actually it just works
as math as was it text.
Kenneth
man, 2003-01-13 kl. 21:17 skrev Luca Padovani:
> On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 19:15, Kenneth Rohde Christiansen wrote:
> > Though, I hope equations will be integrated at text level instead of as
> > a component. This is what is done in LyX, and it does make a difference
> > if you write physics reports etc.
>
> I'm not familiar with LyX so I'm not sure what you mean with
> "integration at text level". What I guess is that you wish equation
> editing to be smoothly integrated with the surrounding text/paragraphs
> to the point that the user doesn't actually realize math is handled by a
> separate component. If my guess is correct well, it is exactly what I'd
> aim at, although I still have some hope that with a proper interface the
> component can be kept reasonably separated from the main application,
> without merging all together in one single blob (see mozilla's layout
> engine).
>
> My point of view is that this kind of fine-grained integration is
> interesting "per se", especially because I see very few examples of this
> turned into practice (then the question is, is it really doable? ;-) ).
> It is also a very reasonable modularization effort: MathML today, SVG
> tomorrow, another kind of object the next month and the application will
> grow in size and complexity (again see mozilla) with the disadvantages
> we all know.
>
> -- Luca
>
-- Kenneth Rohde Christiansen <kenneth@gnu.org>
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