Regression in master

Enrico Forestieri forenr at lyx.org
Mon Dec 30 16:55:08 UTC 2019


On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 05:16:18PM +0100, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Am Montag, den 30.12.2019, 17:02 +0100 schrieb Enrico Forestieri:
> > In master, labels put inside sections are output outside of the
> > section
> > latex command. This is a regression that breaks existing documents
> > like
> > the attached one.
> > 
> > As it is easy to put a label outside of a section title but it is now
> > impossible to put it inside, I think that this new behavior is
> > harmful.
> > 
> > In general, a program should not try to outsmart a user. Please, can
> > this regression be resolved? Thanks
> 
> I don't think we want to simply revert it. See 
> https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/2154 for the background.
> 
> We could add exceptions for exotic use cases such as yours, though.

The point is that it is not possible to workaround this black magic,
while it was easy solving the problems mentioned in that ticket.
A regression is a regression, whatever the exotic use case.

-- 
Enrico


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