On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 9:07 PM, Enrico Forestieri <for...@lyx.org> wrote: > Scott Kostyshak writes: >> >> For master branch, we have: >> "To split an existing list into two lists, set the cursor at the end >> of a list item, press Return and select –Separator– in the pull-down >> box for environments in LyX's main toolbar." >> >> But I don't think we have --Separator-- in the pull-down box anymore. >> Can this be done with Edit > Start New Environment? > > Yes. > >> Note that there is still the LFUN separator-insert but I don't think >> we have a graphical way to insert it. Is that expected? > > Yes. > >> Actually, what >> is the use case for needing separator-insert? I'm sure there is one >> since it is called in LFUN_PARAGRAPH_BREAK, but I do not know it. > > It is used to separate environments. You can do it using > Edit > Start New Environment, but you don't need using the menu. > You start a "Problem" environment and write something. If you want > to start a new "Problem" environment, hit the "Enter" key and go to a > standard environment, hit again the "Enter" key and LyX automatically > inserts a parbreak separator. Now you can start any other environment. > > The parbreak separator will insert a blank line in the latex output. > If you don't want that, use the context menu to change it to a plain > separator. This kind of separators are automatically inserted when > needed in a hopefully intuitive way. If you hit "Enter" in a standard > environment after a non-standard one, you get a separator and you > are ready to insert again the same non-standard environment. > > The small arrow you see, plays the same role of the old --Separator-- > and behaves in the same way, because it leaves a blank line in the latex > output. However, now you can also avoid that blank line by turning the > parbreak into a plain separator.
Thanks a lot for this detailed explanation, Enrico. This makes things perfectly clear to me. >> Also, in aqua.bind, we have a binding for "menu-separator-insert". >> This LFUN does not seem to exist. Can I remove it or should it be >> corrected to something else? I corrected this to specialchar-insert menu-separator at 27b8b068, as suggested by Jürgen. Scott
