On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 05:45:35PM +0100, Jose' Matos spake thusly: > On Monday 16 June 2003 16:37, Angus Leeming wrote: > > > > I wonder... > > > > Many, many users have requested that we provide better support for > > commentary. That is, that we provide the ability to "tune" the output > > from InsetNote.
This is the equivalent functionality as the LaTeX 'comment' package: not only commenting out text, but selectively including it based on labels. Sounds completely sensible -- only "Note" is then not the right name anymore. "Comment" isn't either. "ifdef"? > > Could we not provide the inset dialog with a check box > > [] export to LaTeX > > and provide the ability to "wrap" this output with a header and a > > tail. > > I was thinking more about a different way to associate any inset with some > "class". Then we would have another dialog where we could say for the > different classes if they are outputed or not. > > > > > A Problems document, with and without solution sets, to the students > > and to the examiners... > > Like in this case, there are insets that belong to the class "Solution" and > that can, or not, be outputed. It does not make sense to do that on an inset > per inset basis. > > As I understand it this is what Martin is proposing, to have those classes > that I stated. Precisely. On an inset-class per inset-class basis is what I want. Idea: provide a facility for setting the label of a Note inset. Then set it to such a string as "French", "English", "Solutions", "Model T" or whatever. Then, in the Documents dialog, allow the entry of a single string, e.g., "Danish, Norwegian". Whenever this string is modified, a callback is executed that opens every Note inset whose label is a substring of this string [generalizable to some regex], and closes all the others. And on LaTeX output, performs the same test to output the Note content. > The other important question that Lars asked is if this paragraph level is > enough for branches. For all those cases that were proposed as examples I > would expect that paragraph level insets to be enough. No, paragraph level is *not* enough. It should be character/pseudo-character level. (If it were only paragraph level, it would be a lot simpler...). In my understanding a Note inset can be part of a paragraph (?) > > The collapsable inset concept provides an immediate and intuitive > > solution. > > True. Meetoo! > -- > José Abílio Martin
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