>Ultimately, I'd like to see some quite different solution, >one that would allow multiple optional arguments and would >even allow (require!) the insertion of required additional >arguments. What I have in mind would be, say, a little box >drawn to the left of a section environment. >Clicking on that box would open a dialog, and the dialog >would be something like: > Short Title (Optional): [--------------------------] > [OK] [Cancel] >The title "Short Title" would come from the layout file. >So you'd get the same thing with Theorem, except you'd see: > Theorem Description (Optional): [------------------] > [OK] [Cancel] >or something like that. Now suppose you had some environment >that wanted a required argument. No problem. We can get that >from the layout, too: > Header (Required) : [--------------------------] > Subheader (Optional): [-----------------------] > [OK] [Cancel]
> We could even have a dropbox for such arguments, I'd suppose. > And that could be used to allow different sorts of numbering > with enumerations, for example. > I once had a reason to want this last sort of thing, but I > can't now remember what it was. > > Richard Isn't this what has been discussed in bug 5183: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5183. > Can the original reporter file this as a new enhancement request? I guess this never happened. Vincent
