Re: [eLyXer-users] brackets with \left.

[Ken]

Hi Alex,
Is there an easy way for be to obtain the latest version without git?
I am a Windows user and usually a TortoiseSVN user and don't know how
to use git.  Is it possible to download the script from a webpage?
Thanks,
Ken

2009/12/13 Jens Nöckel <address@hidden>:
> Hi,
> first of all thanks for making elyxer availble - I've installed it on my Mac
> for HTML generation from LyX and it's really promising, with great progress
> in a very short time.
>
> The reason I'm writing is that elyxer gives wrong HTML output for brackets
> such as
> \left. something \right)
> where I use the \left. to balance the right bracket with an invisible
> delimiter. In the HTML output the left delimiter appears as a dot because
> the \left tab is recognized as a "onefunction" and immediately translated by
> inserting the symbol that follows.
>
> I've looked a little at the code and see a Bracket class, but if I
> understand correctly it seems to be used only by the pair [ and ], and it
> also doesn't leave a trace in the HTML output (i.e., there is no surrounding
> <span> in the formula corresponding to the extent of the bracketed content).
> But I'm still trying to learn the logic of the code, so correct me if I'm
> wrong... Ultimately I think the \left and \right tokens should count as
> bracket delimiters, and some way of handling the invisible bracket for
> \left. or \right. is needed.
>
> Right now I can fix this by post-processing the HTML do remove the
> <span class="symbol">.</span>
> But I'm thinking that the Bracket class is probably the place where this
> could be fixed.
>
> Cheers,
> Jens
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