I recently discovered that I might have been using LyX Notes while I
should have been using Comment notes. I was wondering why LyX Notes
inherit the font (https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12939). Comment notes
do not inherit the font of the surrounding text which seems sensible for
a comment. LyX Notes inherit and they seem to be fitting for commenting
out parts of a document out.
My guess is that the commenting feature is what people typically expect
when inserting a "sticky note" (see PDF readers' similar features and
other word processors). The prominent positioning of LyX Notes (as the
only notes in the toolbar) and the visualization (as a sticky note)
seems to have mislead me over the years to expect that they are the
analogue for what is found in other applications. What I really wanted
to do most of the time is put a comment into the text.
A couple of things would be nice.
1. Make Comments more prominent and visualize them as sticky notes
instead of LyX Notes.
Of course that means that LyX Notes should get a new visualization as
well because otherwise they would look to similar. I am not sure what
would be best. If they were specifically for commenting out, it would be
easier but by now many people will have used LyX notes for other stuff
as I did.
2. Allow free spacing in Comments. That is typically a feature in sticky
notes in other applications which is handy if one wants just to quickly
type stuff down without bothering with special formatting.
3. Make it optional whether Comments are exported or not. Another
typical feature. There could be both a global (for all comments) setting
and a local (for individual comments).
I think that would fit my commenting needs much better than what LyX
currently has to offer.
Daniel
--
lyx-devel mailing list
lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org
http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
