steffen wrote,
> Dear LyX developers,
> I am very much in need of an outline mode - as known in Word
> or first seen in ThinkTank on a Mac.
ThinkTank must have progressed massively since the 128k days, or noone
would be asking this :) It was noticably less useful than outlining
in word 1.05 . . .
Anyway, using the section/sub-section/etc. headings, the move ends up
as fairly simple. Assuming I get some time this semester, I'm
planning on playing with this (unless someone else moves in this
direction). There won't be any "modes"; those will be left for those
who understand them. Roughly, in order:
a selection command that selects (or finds) the text of that
subsection and all included sub-levels. This will work by moving
forward paragraph by paragraph until the next heading of the same
level is found.
The next will be a promote/demote, that applies to all headings found
above.
The next logical step would seem to be a move command that moves the
chunks up/down.
The first two should be fairly easy given the way that lyx stores
paragrpahs and pointers to next/last paragraphs. I don't think the
third would be much harder, but giving it an outline view to work on
is *way* beyond me.
> Much less urgent I'd like to see an itemize within another itemize
> visualized.
??? Either I don't understand what you're saying, or it does this
now. Use nested environments.
> And even much much much much less urgent I'd like to see an
> "Insert Special Character" - again word-like.
This was the first think I asked for three years ago when I discovered
lyx. A day or two later, someone implemented it. I think it's M-m g
(I do it without thinking); the command is insert-greek or something
like that. But I'll get very cranky if someone changes it to work the
way word works now with those evil pop-up menus rather than
just typing my greek character :) Also, you can use C-l and any latex
you wish ( \dot , or whatever), and many (most?) will be converted to
lyx.
rick
