1. Is there a way to make the vectors in lyx on screen in bold style,
e.g., \boldsymbol{} or \bm{}
while still using \vec{} ?
If you settle for another name like \v or so:
Create a math macro \v with one arg, defined as \vec{#1}. In the second blue box write \mathbf{#1}. This second box is for appearance in LyX only, i.e. it does not matter what you write in there as long as it looks ok.
Where do I do that? I am not that familiar with Lyx yet!
So maybe you should get started first.
Hm, I have written ca. 10 pages with equations now ... I am just sick of the ugly lucking arrow...
2. Can I configure the font for the large parentheses? On my Mac it looks kinda ugly!
The parantheses on screen are 'hand drawn'. There is no font involved.
That would be a few nice improvement: A.) Take nice fonts for the arrows on the vectors, and the parentheses and replace the handcoded stuff by good fonts.
Soso. What font do you suggest for parantheses of arbitrary size?
Hm, some truetype font? How does latex do that? To be quite honest, I do not know which font is right - but there must be some truetype font which does that job ... all the other fonts look so awesome when used with the Mac Font rendering!
Hmm, that would also be a thing I would prefer not to see ... when I put
effort into porting lyx to Mac, then I also want to show it to people
and say:
hey it looks and works better than word. That part is good about texmacs
(which I hate for many other reasons) --- the equations look awesome!
Have you _edited_ formulas in TeXMacs (not just entered a few symbols)?
Yes, I wrote one conference paper in it. Entering equations in TexMacs works nice when
done over the menus (my problems with texmacs were the keyboard codes
(hard to learn, clash with Mac X11), the latex-code generation (wired), the pseudo
WYSIWIG, the frequent crashes with all documents lost, and the slowlyness.
That made give up as I nearly did not make the deadline thanks to Texmacs.
I have written tons of papers with SWP --- but that was the only feature where
TexMacs could truly outperform both SWP and LyX.
If not, do that.
Did a real lot of that!
Now tell me what's more important when writing math: Being able to edit a
formula or good looks on screen.
Both in one - Texmacs manages that, SWP does to some extend too! If LyX can
look as good as SWP I am happy, but I do not see why LyX should not use the
only thing where TexMacs works better? I am sure Joris and David (the main
developers from Texmacs) would allow lyx to integrate their equation drawing....
Best, -Jan
