On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 06:25:35AM -0400, Reivec Saltari wrote:

> could make the next menu always on top as well and put it where I want 
> it, but then if I click another menu on the math panel, the old one goes 
> away and the new one is again right below the math panel.  I would like 

What do you mean, the old one goes away ?

> to be able to just setup my buttons off to the side, type what I need, 
> then just click (one time) on the symbol I need, and continue on.  That 
> would be a much more user friendly way of going about it.  Now I plan to 

The new Qt frontend is probably closer to what you want.

> start using C-m and just type in what I need manually, but I first have 
> to learn all the tags first, so that isn't the best solution for a 
> beginner to TeX/LaTeX/Lyx.

The Qt frontend gives the latex names as a tooltip in the math panel.

>  I am thinking more of a photoshop/gimp type 
> setup, where you have your toolboxs sitting to the side to aid you in 
> your work. Maybe even ability to make custom toolboxes by taking buttons 
> from other menus and putting them into a new one the user creates? 

I plan to do this at some point for Qt

regards
john
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