On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 03:03:09PM -0400, Garst R. Reese wrote: ... > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: circumflex > > Herbert Voss wrote: > > > > from my point of view the better way is to handle the > > ^ and _ as usual and as a special one in math! Than you > > don't have this problem. > I agree, but permit me to say why. People writing in languages that use > the circumflex should not be punished. Extra key-strokes could be > punishing, esp. writing long documents. There is the illusion that LyX > users are math users. This probably bore some truth in the beginning, > but in the broader scheme of document writers, they are certainly a > small minority. The majority of software users do not subscribe to > lists, if they find a program inconvienient, they quit using it. This is > all the more true for non-english speakers. > Garst (who almost never uses circumflexes of underscores).
In other words... it should be configurable! (it is today in the bind files, only not easily.) However, please note that writers in languages with circumflexes (and other accents) do *not* (normally) get punished. On a French keyboard e.g. you will find the common accented letters as separate keys, which a French touch typist knows. Only if you want to make an accented letter in a language alien to the keyboard (or in case of the underscore, you have to write e.g. underscores in variable names in code listings) you run into the problem. It is true that math writers are a minority (and one that we want to become smaller, relatively ;-) but those that do need LyX for its mathematical ability tend to use ^ and _ *massively* (as they learned to in a TeX/text editor environment ages ago), and not just a few characters for special occasions. For them, an extra prefix would be real punishment. Martin (a sub/superscript wholesale consumer) -- Martin Vermeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Helsinki University of Technology Department of Surveying P.O. Box 1200, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland :wq
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