On 3/12/2015 5:37 a.m., Guillaume Munch wrote:
Le 01/12/2015 21:57, Andrew Parsloe a écrit :
When a branch is inactivated in alpha2 (on Windows), the Outline
display shows duplicated expand/contract boxes, as in the attached
png. Activate the branch and the duplication vanishes. I read in the
New features in 2.2 that " entries that are disabled (i.e. either in
a note or in an inactive branch) are now marked with the symbol ❎".
Presumably the empty boxes should display this symbol. Does this
point to a missing font package in my latex distribution?
Dear Andrew,
Thank you for the report. I am interested in your configuration and
feedback because it's very had for me to test in Windows (especially old
versions).
First, this is indeed the symbol ❎ not displaying correctly but this has
nothing to do with a missing font package in your latex distribution.
Here are a couple of questions:
* What version of Windows is this?
Windows 7 (64 bit)
* Does the "New Features in 2.2" webpage successfully displays this
symbol on the same operating system?
Yes (in Firefox) and, as above, in Thunderbird
* Would you say that the user interface font in LyX is consistent with
other applications in Windows?
Yes -- I'm not aware of missing or garbled symbols
* Have you ever noticed other symbols displaying incorrectly? For
instance, does the outliner correctly displays the symbols ✀ and ✍ for
tracked changes? (Please test this by enabling change tracking, doing
some additions and removals, and opening the outliner of tracked
changes, if you can.)
The second of these symbols (the pen in the hand) displays when I make a
change. I don't use change tracking much (only once, many years ago).
When should the first symbol arise?
* Would you say that the symbol ❎ conveys the appropriate meaning for
"marking entries that are disabled (i.e. either in a note or in an
inactive branch)"? (assuming that it displays correctly on your screen.)
What about a different symbol such as ✖ ? Is it very confusing to have
an empty square instead of a more intuitive symbol?
The empty square looks like a bug. Once I realised that the square was
intended, but that the bug was the lack of the X, I started to wonder
whether this was intuitive or not. From a practical point of view, the
extra square pushes the heading further to the right. I like to work
with a split view, left and right panes, and the outliner open, so that
this is a significant consideration for me -- it makes the outliner a
wee bit less convenient to use.
To my mind a more intuitive display would be to shade the expand/shrink
box, initially I thought with grey, then I thought it could be yellow
for a note and the branch colour for an inactive branch. An alternative
that also came to mind, was a small superscript cross for an inactive
branch (and a superscript tick for an active one?), and some other
symbol (a superscript zero? a yellow square?) for a note. These displays
take no or minimal space from the display of headings.
Having said all that, I like the extra information.
Andrew
I will discuss the possible solutions on the list once I know more about
your situation.
Sincerely,
Guillaume
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