On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 09:03:18PM +0200, Jan Peters wrote:
> >> Remember, it should NOT be LyX goal to kill SWP as it is needed
> >> both as competition benchmark and in order to make ppl outside
> >> academia/OSF environments aware of the WYSWIM concept.
> >>
> >> Right now, they also still have some big advantages, e.g., entering
> >> equations is still much easier/more natural...
> >
> >What feature exactly do you think of?
> 
> For example: I write a long equation and now I want to add a line.  In
> LyX, I need to press Apple + Enter on a Mac while SWP just requires
> Enter. While it is something ppl learn fast, it still feels weird
> after having done it many times. However, if I press  Apple + Enter
> too many times, I only know how to remove the extra lines using the
> *table* toolbar as the keyboard combination is not natural enough to
> figure out without a handbook. Why doesn't delete and backspace solve
> that?

For me it does. Place the cursor in the first of #columns empty cells
and press 'Delete'. To clear a row, select it, dir 'Delete' to get empty
cell, press 'Delete' a second time to remove the row.

Apart from that it's als in the menu under Edit->Math and right now
greyed out as far as I can see. *sigh*

> The same thing holds true about tables.

Tables are admittedly a bit more cumbersome, but we were talking about
'entering equations' weren't we?

Andre'

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