Angus Leeming wrote: > Moritz Moeller-Herrmann wrote: > * You would like some on-screen way to differentiate between > different footnotes.
Correct. > * Lars thinks that you really need footnote labels. False. I do not need these labels. > * André and myself both think that preview-latex is the wrong way to > go about providing this information. That might be. I thought it might be easier than a lyx native solution with the counters, if the work is already done in preview.sty. > The moral? Take an active interest in the 1.4 development cycle. I have watched lyx development since before 1.0. The request for footnote counters has been made several times by me. I also put it into a bugzilla wish, where it was closed as invalid, IIRC. [...] > 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. I look forward to 1.4 then. Thanks for your hard work on lyx and your replies.
