On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Herbert Voss wrote: > > I'm wondering if there is a special reason why 'eqnarray' is the math > > environment you get by default the first time you press C-Enter? > > historical reason > > > For instance, is eqnarray the most frequently used environment? > > no, should be align, better spacing. But then you _must_ > use amsmath. The way in LyX should be: > C-Enter -> amsmath button enabled? > yes -> align > no -> eqnarray > > > Or is it related to that you by default get an 'equation' math environment > > when you do C-m or S-C-m? > > also historical reason
I added this as enhancement: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472 > > Ok, but if this is what we should use to increase the size of brackets, > > do you think it would be a good idea to add a menu entry for it? E.g. > > Insert->Math->vphantom > > > > Or possibly add a button in the Delimiters-dialog that inserts a > > vphantom-inset? > > There are a lot of other things which should be fixed and/or > implemented than \vphantom. Oh, definitely... but I don't see anything wrong with filing this for the future as enhancement request: http://bugzilla.lyx.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473 (And in addition, this seems like a relatively easy thing to actually implement, so it's suitable for someone who's new to lyx, e.g. me) /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
