Dear Jean-Marc,
I was using equation to write syntax-highlighted code. So I wanted to write
something like this:
$\keyword{hello} \comment{this is a comment}$
Which would display as
hello // this is a comment
Here \comment would be defined as \texttt{\textcolor{green}{#1}}.
Of course in lyx, pressing space whilst inside \comment macro would exit it, so
I couldn't directly type the above. This was verry annoying for writing long
comments as they would often have lots of words with spaces before them!
I don't have this problem anymore, as I am now using the listings package to
highlight blocks of code that contain such long comments; but I'm still using
math equations to highlight inline code (and just typing ctrl+space on the odd
occasion I need a space).
— Isaac
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From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org>
Sent: 15 April 2019 10:16 PM
To: Isaac Oscar Gariano; LyX Mechanics
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make math autocorrrect work with more than 2 chars
Hi again,
Let's go through the remaining issues now.
Le 12/04/2019 à 05:23, Isaac Oscar Gariano a écrit :
> * It supports unicode input. LyX seems supports this as well, but when
> I put '→' in the autocorrect file instead of '\rightarrow' it shows
> in lyx with a different font, however it still outputs \rightarrow
> in the LaTeX. It would be nice if I could change the font lyx uses
> here, so I could at least copy and paste unicode symbols from other
> programs.
I will pass on this one. Could someone comment on the use of unicode in
math?
> * It has a simple graphical dialogue for edditing the autocorrect
> list. I use this feature quite frequently, so it would be very
> annoying to have to restart the program every time I make a simple
> change to it. I wanted to implement such a thing for LyX, however I
> am not familar with QT, so I decided to be lazy and just add a
> reload button. Perhaps instead we should just have a 'reload config'
> button that reloads all config files at once, similar to the
> existing 'reconfigure' button?
I do not like the idea of adding a 'reload file' button. A real dialog
would of course be the best solution, but we could also have a file
monitor (see support/FileMonitor) that detects when the file has been
updated. Or theCorrections could be turned into a function that reloads
the corrections if the file has been changed since last use (this might
prove expensive, since it requires access to the file system).
> * It allows turning on autocorrect in text mode, thus can be quite
> convenient. It may be better add a feature to LyX to make such
> autocorrects automatically create an equation, e.g. typing '->' in a
> text field would generate the latex '$\rightarrow$.
I am not sure that I like that. What do others think?
> * It triggers autocorrect on space, this is very annoying, lyx on the
> other hand applies the autocorrect immediatley!
Good :)
> * It allows verbatim spaces, which is annoying as I am unable to pass
> literal spaces to a user-defined math macro, though it is possible
> with the predefined \text macro; I may consider 'fixing' this later.
Could you give a use case?
> As for the commented out texmacs corrections, I havn't had the time to
> go through it, but their are several problems with them:
>
> * Some refer to commands that lyx dosn't recognise, like \longdashv (I
> don't know how to fix this problem).
> * They are in the wrong format (they are missing whitespace before the
> character that triggers the redirect)
> * Prefixes to some of them are allready registered as autocorrects
> (e.g. '<=**> \lesseqqgtr' needs to be changed to '\leqq > \lesseqqgtr')
OK, it was just a suggestion. More important would be to have new
bindings that use the feature. I guess one candidate is
-- > \longrightarrow
> As for your question:
Forget about my questions. They were pointless.
JMarc
