On 01/02/2016 02:32 PM, Michael Cwikel wrote:
>
> Dear Developers:
>
> I currently use LyX 2.4.1 under Windows 8.1.
>
> Please consider developing the following feature:
>
> A new reset button in the LyX: Text Style window to instantly change all
> seven 'entries' in that window to all become "No Change".
Yes, this is obviously a good idea. Please file an enchancement bug
request on Trac:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/
> P.S. I also invite you to look at:
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/49356314/lyx/hi.html
>
> for many other rather older suggestions that I have for
> improving LyX. Perhaps meanwhile some of these have already been
> implemented independently of me.
I looked through this briefly. You are right that some of these have
been implemented, or can be. Considering the first, for example:
> Sometimes we work on a document in which we repeatedly nd that we
> have to add certain phrases written in one text style (font, colour,
> size), etc. and other phrases written in another text style. Therefore
> each user should be able to set up a limited number of personalized
> text styles, and whenever they are needed, apply them by highlighting
> the text where they are required and pressing (for example) alt-ctrl-N
> where N is the number of the style, or by right clicking to access a
> menu which lists those personalized styles, and enables one of them to
> be chosen.
This basically means using character styles and then assigning them to
shortcuts. True, that is a global setting, not a per-document one, which
this might be, but I suspect it is workable.
For the second:
> I have not upgraded yet beyond version 2.01 becase sometimes when one
> upgrades to a new
> version of LYX, some nice features which were available in a previous
> version become unavailable. For this and for other reasons, I also
> strongly suggest that dierent versions of LYX should be able to
> coexiston the same computer COMPLETELY independently, each with their
> own dedicated subfolders etc. Of course it would be very advisable
> to oer the user the option of importing some or all relevant settings
> and parameters from a previous version to a newer version (or maybe
> even vice versa), but this should not be done automatically.
This has always been possible. Exactly how you might manage it depends
upon your OS. I have several versions of LyX running on my machine, for
development purposes.
You might try posting the other suggesions (a few at a time!) to this
list, or just filing enhancement requests. Many of them seem reasonable
to me.
Richard
