Dekel Tsur wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 10:36:12AM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 22 May 2001, Ulrich [iso-8859-1] Günther wrote:
> >
> > > How do I get mathbf in lyx?
> >
> > http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/mathmode.html#boldmath
>
> LyX has build-in support for \mathbf:
> Just press M-c b (or Ctrl+b) and type your text.
> Press M-c b (or Ctrl+b) again to return to normal mode.
>
> If you need bold greek letlets, use the bm package
> (\usepackage{bm} in the preamble, and \bm{...} in the formula).
I am creating a presentation using lyx/foiltex and to make my text
clearer I like to put the text in bold. However, putting the math
in bold as proposed above leads to a number of problems.
1) Ctrl-bXCtrl-b is not the same as \bm{X}
In general I want the latter since it looks like a bold math X while
the former looks like a bold X but the latter is more diffficlt to type.
2) I cannot select a math equation and type Ctrl-b to make it bold.
This works or course for most things such as delete or color red.
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Tex and thus lyx are designed to handle the formatting for you which
for the most part is great.
However for slides you need a lot of control over formatting.
In particular you need to know if some text will require an extra
line or an extra slide. If an extra slide is needed I may
rewrite my text or shrink a figure to make it fit.
This is probably a situation that lyx simply cannot handle well
since it is based on tex which is not designed for slide presentations
Nevertheless a few things might help.
If I could automatically (by say a flag) open my lyx window at the
size indicated by my page size parameters I would have a better
idea what fits on a page. Admittedly this would be unreliable but
it would nevertheless help.
Some kind of control so that each slide could have its own page
size parameters. For pages with less data it would be convienient
to shrink the page size. Alternatively there would need to be some
kind of center page command that worked like center paragraph.
These sound more like latex/foiltex issues than lyx issues and I don't
expect solutions anytime soon. But I thought I'd let you
know of some of the problems.
Thanks
Ralph Boland
