Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
"Paul" == Paul A Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Paul> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Use Insert>Short Title. I know the name is not very helpful, but we
have not been able to come up with something better. JMarc
Paul> I had no idea that worked. (I'd assumed that it literally
Paul> inserted *only* the optional short version of a title.) How
Paul> about Insert-> Option or Insert->Optional argument? Those are
Paul> sufficiently obvious that I suspect they were considered and
Paul> rejected for some reason.
Well, the idea was that we wanted to use that for sections and
captions, where short title made perfect sense. Optional argument only
makes sense if one understands the underlying LaTeX code.
Ideally, we should be able to set the string in the layout file, but
we are not quite ready for that.
Started out as a short title, it is now used for more.
How about renaming it to "optional stuff" and write in the
userguide that it is for "short titles and ...", simply listing
all the current uses.
This can be done more elaborate for 1.5. Lyx-1.4 has context
sensitive menus, things come and go depending on what
is possible to do with the paragraph. This could be extended to
the optional inset too: The layout file decided wether an optional
inset is appropriate in that paragraph type. It could also specify
what the menu text entry should be. I.e. "short title" if the cursor
is in a section header/caption, "something else" if it is in
one of those beamer layouts that support optional args.
Helge Hafting
