Hello,
Here is a bunch of suggestions I collected other the last few months,
and be lazy to send earlier.
I will first describe my use of LyX at it is probably unusual, and
some of my suggestions are related to this. I have a very bad hand
writing, so I display my class notes during the class using my laptop
and a LCD projector. I also post the notes on the web in different
format (html, dvi, ps, text, PDF). The traditional way would be to
produce slides with latex/lyx compile them, and display them with gs
for example. But this is not enough for me, since I want to make minor
fixes to the notes during the class, or to add, say, results of
exercises we work on. Well, I simply display my notes directly with
LyX. And it works almost perfectly, LyX does an excellent job as an
informal presentation tool. It just needs to get used to scroll
through the notes, instead of switching from one slide to the other as
in a usual presentation.
Thanks so much for this great versatile tool!
For reference: http://www.mines.edu/Academic/courses/math_cs/macs358/
- In math equations, \circ is displayed on the screen as an unknown
macro, instead of being drawn. So far I am using \bullet instead
but it's ugly. I need it in three weeks for my class on composition
of functions :-)
- I am missing the following starred environments with amsmath:
notation*, problem*, ... Are they non-standard ?
- When entering emphasized text, striking right arrow at the end of the
line should allow to exit the emphasized text.
- Bug in the users guide: it says LyX uses \epsfig, whereas it really
uses includegraphics to import figures (which is The Right Thing).
- Could the file browser for including graphics display thumbnails of
the figure as, say, in the xfig file browser ?
- LyX support for "\DeclareGraphicsExtensions" ?
To be able to generate both postscript and PDF documents, I have my
graphics files in both .eps and .pdf format. My problem is that if
I specify a graphics file without an extension "bla", lyx does not
find it. On the other hand, if I specify the full file name
"bla.eps", the compilation with pdflatex does not work.
What I currently do is to specify the full name, so that the figure
appears correctly during the presentation, and then I have use
little perl hack to remove the extension from the exported latex
file before running pdflatex on it. It works, but yuck
One way to get around this would be to have LyX support the
standard latex graphics extensions mechanism. Specifically when the
name of the figure is specified without extensions, LyX would try
the standard extensions in order.
- LyX support for "\graphicspath"
It would be nice to have LyX support the graphicspath latex
feature. Right now, LyX does not find the figure do display it in
the LyX buffer. More important, the compilation fails. On the other
hand, exporting as latex, and compiling by hand works. It seems to
be related to the compilation in the temporary directory.
I attached to this email an tar.gz with an example.
- With the Format->Character menu, clicking on apply switch back and
forth between the original and the modified versions. Why not.
However, it's counter intuitive that clicking on OK switches back
to the original !
- Support for the hyperref package would be cool.
- Could LyX-Code be defined in amsmath/amsbook classes ?
- My class notes are split up, with one file per chapter. I want to
be able to compile each chapter separately, as well as to compile
the full document. The problem is that I have some math-macros that
are used in several chapters at the same time. To be able to
compile each chapter separately, I need to define them at the
beginning of each chapter. But then, when I compile the full
document, LaTeX complains about multiply defined macros.
What would be the best way to get around this ?
- For my use of LyX as presentation tool, I need to be able to
quickly scroll the text to some precise position, so as to display
the precise part of the document I want, and hide the solutions of
the exercises. Moving the cursor around does not work well, since
it makes jumps if there are figures or big equations. Right now I
use the scrollbar. I would prefer to have keyboard shortcuts (Say
Ctrl-Up arrow and Ctrl-down arrow, for scrolling up or down by a
fixed amount (e.g. 1cm). That would save me from looking once again
foolish trying to figure out where the mouse cursor disappeared.
- I use many different paragraph styles, and had to define many
shortcuts of them. I would find more practical to have a unique
shortcut, with name completion.
Example: to get to the "Problem" paragraph style, hit M-p Pr<TAB>.
It could be on some other shortcut than M-p, to avoid conflicts.
Also, when using the popout paragraph style menu, PgUp and PgDown
should probably also move the cursor in the visible range.
Many thanks in advance for all of this!
Have a good week-end,
Nicolas
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