On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:02:50PM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Herbert Voss wrote: > > > > Why use multline, rather than what you get when you just press C-Enter? > > > (Or perhaps the question should be why don't we get multline?) > > > > how should LyX know what kind of equation the user wants, when > > he inserts C-Enter?? > > 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?
Sure. History. Moreover, it's not the worst. \substack would be more surprising. > For instance, is eqnarray the most frequently used environment? Historically, certainly. Here it is still. > Or is it related to that you by default get an 'equation' math environment > when you do C-m or S-C-m? Same historical reason. > 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? I wouldn't mind a vphantom inset. Andre'
