Am Montag, 22. Oktober 2001 16:11 schrieb Juergen Vigna: > On 22-Oct-2001 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > No, rather a popup which would contain like the space above/below > > in Layout>Paragraph, but adapted to the horizontal space thing. > > Also similar to the math space stuff (merging them would probably > > be good). > > Why not extend the InsetSpecialChar? We could have a > (right-mouse-button) popup there to change from one special char to > the other and special options for special chars. Should be easy IMO. > In the same time we should change the save format of this inset and > adopt a <xml> like syntax. I've seen that using such a syntax is > really nice as "feature" addition can also be read in older version > (they are ignored) and don't produce an error when reading. I've seen > this with the new InsetTabular format as I can now add new features, > but the resulting files can still be read without problems by older > lyx-versions!!! (important here would be a fallback default value)
This all sounds not bad (but note that I can't help you with this ;-) Important from my (user-cetric) view would be that all the commands are easily rechable by the keyboard, e.g with bindings like the ones I added to Herbert's space-patch: - C-(S)-space: protected space - M-space: normal space - C-M-space: thin space etc. without need of fiddling around in popups, so that these insets can be used like "normal" characters. And important is IMHO that these inset are not too dominant in the text. One reason why I like the old special insets is that they do not disturb much the readability on screen (this is indeed one [the only] disadavantage of the New Insets (footnotes, margins) compared with the old ones IMHO). Jürgen S. > Jürgen
