Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> Mouse selection does work, in fact, but it is really not precise. It
> takes a lot of tries to select correctly.
>
> JMarc
OK, but how many tries? I have used Lyx since v0.1, and I could
never get mouse selection to work properly inside a bracket or
a fraction or a square root. What happens is that it is all or
nothing - you can select the entire bracket, but not
just part of it, like (say) the first four symbols.
An even stranger thing happens if a fraction is at the left
hand side of an equation. Then you can't mouse-select the whole
fraction by going left-to-right, but only by going from
right-to-left (which is not the most `natural' way). This
behaviour is not found at all using keyboard selection.
These are minor things, and you learn to work around them -
but it makes it harder to explain the wonderful virtues
of Lyx to newbies, when they get to these problems. People
just get used to mouse-selection.
I'm not really `complaining' (I have no right to), just
giving feedback - to me, its still the best thing there is.
yours, Peter Drummond.
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