lyx_mirror/development/HTML/HTML.notes
Richard Heck 694ab1b043 Update notes.
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TODO:
1. The counter patch, and better output for InsetRef.
2. Better output for citations, meaning better labels. Numerical, as said below,
should be easy, and author-year oughtn't to be THAT hard. But it'll need a
bit of work.
3. CSS needs work in several places, mostly floats. Maybe check elyxer on that.
4. MathML
These insets work but still need work:
InsetBibtex: There are a few issues here.
- One is that the output is not very nice. This will be solved, though, by
a patch of mine I seem to have forgotten to finish. To get output that
accorded with the BibTeX style, of course, we'd have to parse the bbl file.
I don't know if that's worth it.
- Another issue concerns cross-references. At the moment, we simply use the
xref information for every entry, rather than listing the xref separately and
then referencing it. That should not be terribly hard, but it would take a bit
of work.
- A third issue concerns the labels. At present, we use the BibTeX key as the
citation label. It would not be too hard, I think, to use numerical labels,
in the way BibTeX does. To do so, we'd need to move the sorting routine out
of InsetBibtex so we could do it before we print the citations. See below.
InsetBox: The CSS isn't there yet.
InsetCitation: This has two limitations as of 20 XI 2009. The first is that we
ignore the citation style and output square brackets, no matter what. The
second is that, with BibTeX, we simply use the BibTeX key as the citation
string, thus ignoring numerical, author-year, etc. It will not be too hard
to make numerical work. To do this, we need to collect information on the
used citations, alphabetize them, and then assign numerical labels via the
BibTeXInfo::label() method. A similar strategy will work for author-year and
the like, but calculating labels will be more complex---unless we just parse
the bbl file, which of course is the only fully general solution.
InsetFlex: I think this one is OK, but it needs some testing.
InsetFloat: This seems to work OK, but it will need testing and tweaking.
InsetGraphics: This works in a pretty primitive way, in that it outputs the graphic
and appropriate img tag. But we don't yet do any sort of scaling, rotating, and
so forth. That won't be hard, since we can just call ImageMagick to do this for
us, but appropriate routines will need to be written.
InsetRef: At present, we just use the label name as associated text, and put it
into square brackets. It'd be nice to be able to do more, but for that we'd need to
associate counters with the labels, and we don't have that yet.
InsetTabular: Works reasonably well, but we don't do anything with any of the
arguments provided for longtable. There are probably other limitations, too,
since I'm very much not an expert with tables.
InsetTOC: This now works pretty well, but only for the table of contents, not for
any other TOC-like lists. Getting those to work shouldn't be too bad, as we can
do almost exactly the same thing. That said, though, we might want to do things
slightly differently, and have the links target actual *insets*, rather than just
target paragraphs. That'd mean doing a bit of work on TocBackend, etc.
Math
We have a fair bit of math now working via MathML output, but there are still some
isues, and not all the insets work. Here are the ones I know still need work:
- AMSArray
- Array
- Big: Not sure if we can actually do anything here. Probably they should
just be treated as delimiters.
- BoldSymbol: Should be easy.
- Box
- Cases
- Diff: Code exists, but I do not know if it is right.
- Font
- Binom (in Frac): None of these tags exist in MathML 2.0. We'll
just output a fraction with delimiters.
- Lefteqn
- MBox: Use <mtext>.
- Overset: Use <mover>.
- Par?
- Phantom: There is some support for this in MathML....
- Ref: Probably needs to be deferred somehow, which is a hassle, because it
means the whole MathML output business needs a new argument.
- Size: Unclear if we want to do anything here, though we could. See
lib/symbols for the commands supported, of course.
- Space: Needs checking.
- SpecialChar: Needs checking.
- Split
- Stackrel: Use <mover>, probably.
- Substack: This is a stack of however many cells, all in a smaller style.
Probably do something with <mover>, again.
- Tabular: This is more or less a text-like table in math. Probably output it
as a table, but set the font.
- Underset: Use <munder>.
- XArrow: Contents above and below an arrow. Use...?
- XYMatrix: Not sure how this differs from ordinary ones.
These insets do not work and are not yet scheduled to work:
InsetExternal: It may be that this won't be too hard, but I don't understand
these so am not sure what to do. For now, it is disabled.
InsetIndex and InsetPrintIndex: An "advanced" case. What really would be cool
would be to collect all of these and then write the index as a series of links
back to the occurrences. But not now.
InsetNomencl and InsetPrintNomencl: Also "advanced".
May need to make use here of TocWidget::itemInset, which should then be moved
to TocBackend.
MATH
Regarding math, the view seems to be that we should in the first instance just use what
we get from instant preview and copy those over to the output directory, and then try
to make MathML work.