Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote:
> I am sick of getting this argument against implementing a fscking
> simple footnote counter in lyx. So after reading your very long
> answer, I can only conclude, that lyx does not and will never have a
> useful implementation to see the footnote number, either using
> preview-latex ("kludge") or otherwise.I've read the long stream of mails that my response generated. I think that it can be summarised as: * You would like some on-screen way to differentiate between different footnotes. * Lars thinks that you really need footnote labels. * André and myself both think that preview-latex is the wrong way to go about providing this information. The moral? Take an active interest in the 1.4 development cycle. Requests /are/ considered seriously. Often, they result in a vigorous discussion about the 'best' way forward. That can be frustrating when you feel your request is simple (been there), but experience shows we don't have the manpower to implement features poorly. We have to get them 'nearly right' first time. LyX already has counters internally. It uses them for things like Sections. The code was cleaned up enormously by Martin Vermeer in the 1.3 cycle, but he shied away from using them for the screen representation of things like Figure Floats. That's why they appear on screen as Figure '#'. He's done the majority of the work though, so it's not unreasonable to expect to see Figure 1, Table 2 in LyX 1.4. It would probably be trivially easy to have footnotes numbered too. Best regards, -- Angus
