}
--cur.pos();
InsetMathScript * inset = cur.nextAtom().nucleus()->asScriptInset();
- // special handling of {}-bases
- // is this always correct?
- if (inset->nuc().size() == 1
- && inset->nuc().back()->asBraceInset())
- inset->nuc() = inset->nuc().back()->asNestInset()->cell(0);
+ // See comment in MathParser.C for special handling of {}-bases
cur.push(*inset);
cur.idx() = 1;
cell->back() = MathAtom(new InsetMathScript(cell->back(), up));
InsetMathScript * p = cell->back().nucleus()->asScriptInset();
// special handling of {}-bases
- // Test for empty brace inset, otherwise \xxx{\vec{H}}_{0}
- // where \xxx is an unknown command gets misparsed to
- // \xxx\vec{H}_{0}, and that is invalid LaTeX.
- // is this always correct?
- if (p->nuc().size() == 1 &&
- p->nuc().back()->asBraceInset() &&
- p->nuc().back()->asBraceInset()->cell(0).empty())
- p->nuc() = p->nuc().back()->asNestInset()->cell(0);
+ // Here we could remove the brace inset for things
+ // like {a'}^2 and add the braces back in
+ // InsetMathScript::write().
+ // We do not do it, since it is not possible to detect
+ // reliably whether the braces are needed because the
+ // nucleus contains more than one symbol, or whether
+ // they are needed for unknown commands like \xx{a}_0
+ // or \yy{a}{b}_0. This was done in revision 14819
+ // in an unreliable way. See this thread
+ // http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel%40lists.lyx.org/msg104917.html
+ // for more details.
parse(p->cell(p->idxOfScript(up)), FLAG_ITEM, mode);
if (limits) {
p->limits(limits);