This is the same protection used for \cite{}. Although "ulem" commands
don't strictly need this protection with \ref{} and friends, this helps
when one wants to use another package souch as "soul".
Indeed, ulem's \uline{} doesn't hyphenate words, while soul's \ul{} does,
and thus the output is much nicer.
With this patch, replacing ulem with soul is as simple as adding
\usepackage{soul}
\renewcommand{\uline}[1]{\ul{#1}}
to the preamble, without worrying about manually enclosing in \mbox the
\ref commands. In any case, the output from ulem remains unchanged.
Another possibility offered by soul is that of typesetting as
"yellow highlighted" the underlined text. This is achieved by adding
\usepackage{color,soul}
\renewcommand{\uline}[1]{\hl{#1}}
to the preamble.
The mhchem package treats the caret both as a shorthand for \uparrow or
as a superscript operator according to whether it is surrounded by
spaces or not. The \ce and \cf insets allow inserting spaces but there
is no provision for inserting a space after the caret, which is always
considered by LyX as a superscript operator. The solution here is to
insert a space after the caret if the superscript is empty or an empty
brace inset.
Mathed does not allow empty superscripts, so an empty brace has to be
inserted when working in LyX. On the other hand, when importing latex
code, an empty superscript is retained.
This has no effect whatsoever for normal latex code, as a space after
the caret is ignored. In any case, the output is only changed if an
empty brace inset is used as superscript. Specifically, the output is
changed from "^{{}}" to "^ {}".
The code in DocIterator::sanitize now follows more closely the
previous StableDocIterator::asDocIterator code. In particular, it adds
the slices one by one, since fixIfBroken will chop the cursor
otherwise.
In order to interact with native osx applications, AppleScript support is a plus.
Here is a patch that makes LyX respond to a simple command (run) and that allows to communicate with LyX as with the LyX client.
Example of use:
tell application "LyX" to run "server-get-filename" with argument ""'
returns
message:/Users/bpiwowar/newfile1.lyx, code:0
with a message and the error code
