On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
> > > > perhaps 'M-s', to this action (combined with a separate GUI button)?
> > > We already have Alt-M-s and that's fine. But I would like something even
> > > simpler than that.
> >
> > What the heck does 'Alt-M-s' mean? Or do you mean 'M-p s'?
> > (I thought Alt and Meta was the same key...)
>
> Yep typo, sorry, I really meant Alt+p s
No worries, I just got confused :-)
Actually it'd be quite funny to see a new (Windows) user try and find the
combination 'Alt-M-s'...
In another post, Jean-Marc wrote:
> Georg> I have added a button to my toolbar to do this. It is not 100%
> Georg> fool proof (because it uses layout Standard, and the default
> Georg> layout is named differently in some classes), but for me it is
> Georg> OK.
>
> We could decide that layout-paragraph without argument sets layout to
> default.
Jean-Marc, do you really mean 'layout-paragraph'? Fiddling a bit I thought
it was 'layout' that changes the layout. Using 'layout-paragraph' brings
up a dialog. I'll assume it is 'layout' in what I write below.
I'll try to summarize the different alternatives discussed in this
thread:
Currently available alternatives:
* Use keyboard shortcut 'M-p s'
* Use 'M-x layout Standard', i.e
* Use the pull-down list with environments and select Standard
I *think* that an (expert) user can currently also configure his
system a bit so the followin alternatives also become available:
* Bind a command-sequence to e.g. M-C-s that invokes 'layout Standard'
using:
\bind "M-C-s" "command-sequence layout Standard;"
* Create a toolbar button for this purpose by creating and icon with
the name (?)
"command-sequence layout Standard;"
and place it in the directory ??. LyX will then execute the
command when the user clicks on the icon.
(Is this how you do it, I don't remember!)
Any of the "expert" alternatives above could of course be made to work in
a new release of a LyX by default.
New suggestions and alternatives:
* new-1 (Andreas): Click "Decrease depth" buton and if on the first
level, (and in Itemize/Enumerate/Descirption/List), the environment
changes to Standard.
** Make it work only for Itemize/Enumerate that is not followed by any
text, i.e. for
* <empty>
but not for
* text...
* new-2 (Abdel): If the paragraph is empty, <BackSpace> switches to
Standard instead of deleting the paragraph. (In order to delete
a paragraph you have to press <BackSpace> twice).
* new-3 (JMarc): Make 'layout' without argument set the paragraph
to Standard (or whatever the standard paragraph type is called).
This makes it easier to get a button to work in all types of document.
* new-4 (JMarc): "kill break-paragraph-keep-layout (M-Return) and recycle
the binding to a new break-paragraph-reset-layout that would:
- insert a paragraph break
- reduce depth by one
- set the layout to the one of the enclosing nesting (think
enumerate in itemize) or the standard layout at depth 0.
I think the resetting at the time of a paragraph break is better than
after the fact."
(Note: I didn't get this bit...)
* new-5 (Abdel): Extend the dEPM mechanism: Typing return twice after a
list or an enumeration automatically switches the paragraph layout to
"Standard".
I think that we should do the following:
* Do 'new-3', i.e. let 'layout' without argument set the paragraph layout
to "Standard"
* Create an (optional?) toolbar button for changing to "Standard"
If we in addition should do something, I think that 'new-5' sounds
interesting, i.e. return twice after a list changes to Standard.
cheers
/Christian
PS. I discovered that the argument of the LFUN layout is case sensitive.
In other words, 'layout Standard' works but 'layout standard' doesn't.
Maybe it should be case insensitive?
--
Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
