On 07/14/2010 10:49 PM, Jacob Barandes wrote:
Hi,
LyX is working great, and alpha4 is looking excellent.
First, a question. I can build 2.0-alpha4, and its additional features
(like the advanced search) nicely augment my install of 1.6 when I
need ot use them, but I'd like it to use a different local user config
directory (i.e., not ~/.lyx), so that it doesn't overwrite the config
files for 1.6. Is there a build option for alpha4 that could change
the name of the local user config directory, say, to ~/.lyx-alpha4 ?
Just start with "lyx -userdir ~/.lyx-alpha4". I think you can also
configure --with-version-suffix=alpha4, or something like that.
Now two feature questions about 2.0. Is there any possibility that the
advanced search might support wildcards? That way if a user needs to
change, say, x^{<letter>} to x_{<letter>} for various possible choices
of <letter>, the user could do it all in one go.
Advanced search supports regexes. Much more powerful than wildcards.
The math macro feature is great, especially the way it allows the user
to control how LyX displays the macro in its WYSIWYM onscreen editing
mode. But some packages (like the cancel package) include command
sequences that write over math text with a decoration, and LyX does
not currently have a nice way to display them; would it be possible to
add internal LyX display support for packages like this one? Even
display support for the cancel package alone would be excellent.
Display support for new packages is always a possibility. Feel free to
file an enhancement request.
Richard
