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List:       lyx-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC for a proper sub/superscript handling
From:       Martin Vermeer <martin.vermeer () tkk ! fi>
Date:       2008-06-28 11:32:55
Message-ID: 20080628113255.GA19258 () vipunen ! hut ! fi
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On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 11:46:06AM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Martin Vermeer wrote:
> > No Uwe, you are IMHO mixing up two conceptually different classes of
> > sub/superscript. The chemistry stuff is not math, but similar to math,
> > let's say "formula-like", a visual mini-language. It would deserve its own
> > machinery, that gets the roman right, knows the periodic table and allows
> > for isotope weights top left. It should probably support some chemistry
> > package for LaTeX (which I am not familiar with).
> 
> Right. Something like the bpchem package should be used to provide proper 
> markup for chemical formulae.
> 
> Actually, it should not be too hard to set up some basic chemical.module.

But that would again be flexinset = text based, right? The existing math infra is so \
much more suited for this.  
> Jürgen

- Martin


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