On 2023-11-19 22:30, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
On 11/19/23 15:31, Daniel wrote:
On 2023-11-19 12:20, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Le 19/11/2023 à 07:47, Daniel a écrit :
On 2023-11-15 11:47, Daniel wrote:
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.
It basically offers more freedom to scribble as you like.
Daniel
And also KeepEmpty should be enabled in commnents for similar reasons.
So you want MSWord in a box? I do not see why the feature would
require that. But of course it is not difficult to create a module
that transforms the inset in this way.
I don't see what is MS Word specific about it. But if the commenting
function of PDF readers is MS Word in a box, then maybe that is what I
am thinking about. I guess the thought was that because the output is
not affected anyway, it's fine to let the user choose how to write the
comment. No need to put limits on it.
But I would be already happy if there was some nice out of the box
minimal commenting function that does not inherit the font but also
does (maybe optionally) not affect the output. So far LyX has only LyX
Notes (which inherit the font) and Comments (which affect the output).
Isn't something missing?
I know that a lot can be done with modules. But I am thinking about a
common feature that seems handy in other application which LyX seems
to be missing. It would be strange if one would have to include a
module in order to write comments.
I take JMarc's point to be that what you are asking for seems very
specific to your specific use case. Since it's relatively easy to create
an inset like the one you want, and there are maintenance costs, etc,
connected with adding new things, it's not clear the cost is worth the
benefit.
Note, by the way, that the PDF modules already provide for other forms
of comments.
Riki
I see. But my point was that I don't think that it is specific to my use
case. The reason being that the comment feature is a default feature
found in many applications these days and that this indicates a quite
general usefulness of it.
To provide a more common comment feature seems to me to justify such
cost. I can see how one might think differently given that one has been
able to comment on ones documents for years with LyX notes. It was the
same for me until I realised that the quirks I had with using LyX Notes
might be solved by a more common comment feature.
I don't take my suggestion to be the best idea. But I am pursuaded that
there is clear room for improvement of LyX's commenting functuionality.
I hope someone has some good ideas about this some day.
(For my private use, I am fine with building my own feature of course.)
Daniel
--
lyx-devel mailing list
lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org
http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
