On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Christopher Reeve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> > -lables renaming- > I often comment out text which I don't think I need, but don't want to > delete. To do this I select the text, including any figures or sections and > labels, and click the note button. > > If I decide I want the text and desolve the note then LyX thinks that it > has > found a duplicate of the labels and renames them. This problem also occurs > of course if I just copy and past some of the commented out text back into > my main text again. > > Perhaps LyX should *ask* whether it should change the label and even give > the option for the user to create an alternative name themselves? Otherwise > I would suggest that LyX does not recognise a commented out label, which is > probably best because a user might be tempted to link to it resulting in a > broken reference in their pdf. I agree: this is a problem. There are legitimate reasons to want to have the same label twice in a document, as when the labels are in different branches. LyX should warn of the potential problem and offer to rename, but allow the user to decide what to do. (There already is the "DUPLICATE:" warning on the labels, which is reasonable and which makes it easy to find the labels when using outline view.) When typesetting, LyX should again warn when there are duplicate labels in the produced LaTeX file, since otherwise there may be unexpected results. But LyX shouldn't presume that it knows better than the user. (That's one reason I can't stand Word.) > -the wheel of doom- > This is not specific to beta4. Is there any way that when a document is > compiled that the GUI can continue running uninterrupted? You know, > without showing the wheel of doom with a mac, or the dreaded hour > glass on wondoze? Even one chapter can take an age to compile and > sometimes I need to check if a table etc looks ok when it is compiled. > It would be nice to continue working while the LaTeX compiler does its > thing. This has been mentioned before, though I couldn't find a enhancement request in bugzilla after a quick search. Bennett
