When weeding out my mailbox I found the mail below. Most of the requests are still valid, so maybe somebody finds the time to put it into bugzilla so they don't get lost.
Andre' ----- Forwarded message from Nicolas Thiery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 2711 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2000 17:09:09 -0000 Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 11:06:42 -0600 From: Nicolas Thiery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Various suggestions Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VUDLurXRWRKrGuMn" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i X-UID: 74 Lines: 137 Content-Length: 5785 Status: RO Hello, Here is a bunch of suggestions I collected other the last few months, and be lazy to send earlier. I will first describe my use of LyX at it is probably unusual, and some of my suggestions are related to this. I have a very bad hand writing, so I display my class notes during the class using my laptop and a LCD projector. I also post the notes on the web in different format (html, dvi, ps, text, PDF). The traditional way would be to produce slides with latex/lyx compile them, and display them with gs for example. But this is not enough for me, since I want to make minor fixes to the notes during the class, or to add, say, results of exercises we work on. Well, I simply display my notes directly with LyX. And it works almost perfectly, LyX does an excellent job as an informal presentation tool. It just needs to get used to scroll through the notes, instead of switching from one slide to the other as in a usual presentation. Thanks so much for this great versatile tool! For reference: http://www.mines.edu/Academic/courses/math_cs/macs358/ - In math equations, \circ is displayed on the screen as an unknown macro, instead of being drawn. So far I am using \bullet instead but it's ugly. I need it in three weeks for my class on composition of functions :-) [[This is fixed in 1.2, Andre'] - I am missing the following starred environments with amsmath: notation*, problem*, ... Are they non-standard ? - When entering emphasized text, striking right arrow at the end of the line should allow to exit the emphasized text. - Bug in the users guide: it says LyX uses \epsfig, whereas it really uses includegraphics to import figures (which is The Right Thing). - Could the file browser for including graphics display thumbnails of the figure as, say, in the xfig file browser ? - LyX support for "\DeclareGraphicsExtensions" ? To be able to generate both postscript and PDF documents, I have my graphics files in both .eps and .pdf format. My problem is that if I specify a graphics file without an extension "bla", lyx does not find it. On the other hand, if I specify the full file name "bla.eps", the compilation with pdflatex does not work. What I currently do is to specify the full name, so that the figure appears correctly during the presentation, and then I have use little perl hack to remove the extension from the exported latex file before running pdflatex on it. It works, but yuck One way to get around this would be to have LyX support the standard latex graphics extensions mechanism. Specifically when the name of the figure is specified without extensions, LyX would try the standard extensions in order. - LyX support for "\graphicspath" It would be nice to have LyX support the graphicspath latex feature. Right now, LyX does not find the figure do display it in the LyX buffer. More important, the compilation fails. On the other hand, exporting as latex, and compiling by hand works. It seems to be related to the compilation in the temporary directory. I attached to this email an tar.gz with an example. - With the Format->Character menu, clicking on apply switch back and forth between the original and the modified versions. Why not. However, it's counter intuitive that clicking on OK switches back to the original ! - Support for the hyperref package would be cool. - Could LyX-Code be defined in amsmath/amsbook classes ? - My class notes are split up, with one file per chapter. I want to be able to compile each chapter separately, as well as to compile the full document. The problem is that I have some math-macros that are used in several chapters at the same time. To be able to compile each chapter separately, I need to define them at the beginning of each chapter. But then, when I compile the full document, LaTeX complains about multiply defined macros. What would be the best way to get around this ? - For my use of LyX as presentation tool, I need to be able to quickly scroll the text to some precise position, so as to display the precise part of the document I want, and hide the solutions of the exercises. Moving the cursor around does not work well, since it makes jumps if there are figures or big equations. Right now I use the scrollbar. I would prefer to have keyboard shortcuts (Say Ctrl-Up arrow and Ctrl-down arrow, for scrolling up or down by a fixed amount (e.g. 1cm). That would save me from looking once again foolish trying to figure out where the mouse cursor disappeared. - I use many different paragraph styles, and had to define many shortcuts of them. I would find more practical to have a unique shortcut, with name completion. Example: to get to the "Problem" paragraph style, hit M-p Pr<TAB>. It could be on some other shortcut than M-p, to avoid conflicts. Also, when using the popout paragraph style menu, PgUp and PgDown should probably also move the cursor in the visible range. Many thanks in advance for all of this! Have a good week-end, Nicolas -- Nicolas M. Thiéry "Isil", 412 Washington Avenue, 80403 Golden Colorado (USA) Mél: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Tél: (303)273-5492, Fax: (303)273-3875 WWW: <URL:http://www.mines.edu/~nthiery/> ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
