From lyx-devel  Thu Apr 30 13:25:34 2009
From: Richard Heck <rgheck () bobjweil ! com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:25:34 +0000
To: lyx-devel
Subject: Re: Official submission of eLyXer for inclusion in LyX
Message-Id: <49F9A6CE.8030308 () bobjweil ! com>
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Helge Hafting wrote:
> rgheck wrote:  
>> Right now, it just outputs the raw LaTeX for anything it doesn't 
>> recognize. Fixing this is a matter of writing a LaTeX-->HTML entities 
>> converter, for some of it, or using some trick to generate little 
>> pictures, or maybe using MathML, who knows? But what about math macros?
>
> The correct way of handling math macros would be to resolve them, I 
> think. Macros are there to save work by having the computer do 
> substitutions, so let it happen. After the macros are processed, you 
> have a bigger but simpler set of math to convert into latex or MathML.
>
Yes, of course, and resolving the macros is not impossible. It's already 
done in plastex. But as Andre once said, there's a sense in which only 
TeX seems to know how to resolve macros.

rh