On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:39:20PM +0000, John Levon wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 05:38:41PM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > I, for my part, prefer the 'closed' situation for working as this > > lets me jump around in the document quickly. > > Sorry can you explain further ? Is this because footnotes appear inline > and make the text formatting weird (huge line heights, etc.)
Yes, for instance. And it's a way to filter away part of the document to make it optically smaller. I find things better if the search space is small. It could well be that the somewhat clumsy long-range navigation in LyX comes into play here.. > > For 'reading', the 'open' situation is much better, though. > > > > Soetimes I work, sometimes I read... > > I would strongly prefer to have a View->All Insets Open (with a better > name though). This would NOT affect the permanent state of the insets, > it is a view only. In particular when you go back to View->Normal, then > each inset is exactly as closed or as open as you chose it to be > previously. Ah yes. > I believe this caters well for your use case. Indeed. This solution would be fine. Andre'
