2015-09-18 2:37 GMT+02:00 Guillaume Munch <g...@lyx.org>: > Yes this is the purpose of 94e992c5: not only the subfloats appear at > level 1 in the outliner, but they also appear under the correct float (this > required to set up some new machinery). I am puzzled that you say that the > outliner does not show this. >
To be honest I did not test the outliner but judged based on the commit comment. I tested now and the outliner works as expected (and is much improved by this commit). > > And in fact, I'd also like to navigate there directly. > > Navigation >> would be analoguous to sections that have subsections, >> > so > this seems just right to me. > >> Do you have a situation in mind > where having the 3rd-level menu >> would gain substantially more time than > just clicking the 2nd-level >> element? > > Time is not everything. I think > the extra time investment is not too > big a burden. > Regarding the navigation menu, the possibility of going through only 2 > menus instead of 3 makes a big difference in UI and time is only one aspect > of the increased convenience. I'd take it as soon as there's the > possibility. My point about which you seem to disagree is that there's such > a possibility, because a subfloat is different from a subsection in that a > subfloat is always close to the beginning of its float. Not showing the > subfloats in the navigation menu is a deliberate choice that seems smart to > me given the context. > > Since the difference appears to be a matter of taste, has anybody an > opinion on this? > My opinion is that the navigation menu should display the same structure than the outliner. > > >> Note that LyX is also improved in the following respect: the >> >> > Figure entry no longer goes to the caption but goes to the start of >> the > figure when clicking. So in case captions are at the bottom of >> the > figure we now directly see the first subfigures. > > It is disputable > whether this is an improvement. It depends on > whether you use the > outliner in order to edit the caption (where you > need an extra click > now) or the figure (where the situation did not > really change; you still > need to click the figure/into the table if > you want to edit it). > > Actually it would make sense to show the float, but put the cursor inside > the caption. For instance if the caption is at the bottom of the float, the > screen would be filled with the bottom part of the float and the cursor > would be at the beginning of the caption, near the bottom of the screen. I > still have to see how to achieve this (maybe issuing two move commands is > enough). But, note that it is a "List of Figures" before being a "List of > Figure captions". Anybody finds this proposal worth the small investment? > Me, obviously. Jürgen > > > Guillaume > >
