On 10.01.2008, at 02:33, Bennett Helm wrote:
Better yet, look at the mac-bind.pdf file that is included with the
LyX/Mac distribution. Insert footnote is not defined there, but you
can define it yourself by creating a file with the following:
\bind_file mac.bind
\bind "S-C-F" "footnote-insert"
While it is certainly an option to add lots of shortcuts to the bind-
file, it is also kind of dissatisfying that on Windows and Linux we
implicitly have *all* menu commands available as shortcuts (by the Alt
+underlined letter, underlined letter, ... keyboard navigation through
menus), whereas on Mac the user has to assign about a hundred
shortcuts manually to achieve the same usability. Moreover, the multi-
key shortcuts are not visible in the menu. (The latter is not an as
big problem, as LyX has this great feature to print the shortcut of
the last executed command in the status bar.)
I guess it is not LyX to blame here (and certainly not it's
developers :-) ), but the Mac menu system in general or maybe Qt for
Mac. Nevertheless, I think it would be a good idea to offer Mac users
the same level of comfort by adding *lots* of shortcuts to the
standard mac.bind file and, maybe, looking for some other way to
indicate multi-key shortcuts in the LyX menus.
Daniel
