On Thu, Jan 07, 1999 at 02:38:21PM -0500, Amir Karger wrote:
> Did anyone check John Weiss' slide patch in the docs (Mike)? How about
> in lyx-1_0_x/lib/layouts?
Nope. 'Tis a broken patch.
> By the way, I looked at the patch. John, did you misspell visible and
> invisible? And did you mean the commands to be \lyxinvisible and \lyxvisible?
> Because in your patch the LatexNames are lyxinvisibe and visibe, but the
> \newcommand commands redefine \lyxinvisible and and \lyxvisible.
<D'oh!>
I'll fix all of that before resubmitting.
> btw, I *still* think that adding magenta, blue, cyan, and green is
> adding more colors you don't need. Why not make all slide stuff one
> color? Am I the only one uncomfortable with all these colors?
Any devvie who doesn't like all those colors: skip to the bottom of
this message first.
Everything one color: not WYSIWYM. It'll be hard to tell where one
Slide begins and ends. Same deal for Overlay and Note. I want *at
least two* distinct colors to indicate the start of a new Slide,
Overlay, or Note.
Second point: the slides.layout is a *horrible* kludge of an ancient
LaTeX style onto LyX. We need it because "slides.cls" is one of the
Standard Five for LaTeX2e. However, we don't have the proper
facilities to support it in LyX.
Have any of you ever used the slides layout, or am I the only one?
Anybody who's used it will tell you that it's really easy to get
rather lost, as easy as in an ASCII LaTeX file. At that point, the
usefulness of LyX over emacs/vi for using "slides.cls" becomes
debatable. Not exactly what we want.
So, I'd rather that the LyX support for "slides.cls" be a bit visually
noisy [which it only is if you use *all* of the features, BTW]. It
looks horrible because it *is* horrible! ;) Any devvie who doesn't
like the colors, or the ASCII lines in certain labels, is welcome to
email me with their reasons why. I will gladly implement their
suggested changes to slides.layout...once *they* implement the
features in LyX that I need for make the layout less of a kludge.
--
John Weiss
On a train, someplace between Pawling and White Plains...
