Hi, I recently started using LyX 1.3.7 and I really like it. Right now I am using it to do homework and take notes for my math and physics classes. It is the most useful program I've found for doing this in an easy and intuitive manner (and it's free!)
>From this perspective, I have a few thoughts on what I'd like to see in future versions of LyX. I looked over the list of features being considered and I don't think any of them cover the following ideas (but I wasn't sure what all of them meant so I may be wrong). I am pretty sure none of them are already implemented either, at least I haven't found anything involving them. 1. While I like how the math editor has a symbol for the cosine and sine (cos and sin respectively), it seems like it ought to be easy to allow the user to define an arbitrary series of characters as a mathematical symbol--that is you couldn't edit it just like the symbols for cosine and sine. Right now I don't know of a way to give the math a different font style like the cosine and sin have, so when my teacher started using "cis" as an abbreviation for cos x + isinx I was at a bit of a loss. (Maybe this is a problem related to using the windows version, but when I make a new "box" for text within the math formula box, I find that whatever I type in there wether formula or not generates errors during teX conversion). 2. Along this lines something that let you make arbitary symbols or at least input arbitary symbols (perhaps from a bmp or something else) in a math equation would be great. It would allow a lot more flexibility..I'm not proposing anything complicated like a square root, more like "letters" and such; things that are treated as characters. 3. I am not sure, but I can't seem to have any spaces in my math box...sometimes this would be nice, such as when I am listed variables that are within a set or listing coordinates; anything where variables are separated by commas really. I hope I am not so silly and ignorant as to have missed this features if they are already in the current version--maybe some are in 1.4? Anyhow, those are my thoughts as someone that uses LyX to right out and do math almost every day. Sincerely, Matthew Corner
