On 12/08/2016 12:24 AM, Joel Kulesza wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org > <mailto:skost...@lyx.org>> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 02:32:00PM -0700, Joel Kulesza wrote: > > Colleagues: > > > > Is there a way to adjust the Font of a Style in a .layout to > display as > > UPPERCASE in LyX? > > > > I cannot see a way to do this in Help -> Customization --- have I > > overlooked something? > > > > I am trying to get LyX to match the appearance of an associated > .cls file > > which converts all \section{...} entries to uppercase in the > document. > > The feature does not currently exist. I have come across the same > issue > in the past. I think that there are conceptual issues and it is not > clear we want to implement it. See the ticket here: > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9489 > <http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9489> > If you can respond to the concern there then maybe it would be > reconsidered. > > > Thank you for confirming that the ability is absent and for pointing > me to that ticket. Indeed, I understand the point raised that > representing non-uppercase text as uppercase would be misleading. It > would go against WYSIWYM. However, one might approach WYSIWYM from > two directions: that of the user and that of the publisher. I believe > the ticket to be written from the perspective of the user and his/her > interaction with LyX (if they mean for uppercase, they should use/see it).
Another option, which we do sometimes use, is to change the color, as a signal that something is weird. We do this, for example, with 'resumed' enumerations, where the numbering ends up being wrong. So, e.g., we could make the captialized section heading blue. > To avoid the "loss of information" cited in the ticket, I would > propose converting the case to uppercase as the section heading is > typed so that any subsequent copy/paste would be uppercase. Possible but would involve complicated hard-coding of this conversion, and it would be very different from what else we do. Richard
