I am trying understand how to set a keyboard shortcut to font-ita in
LyX 1.6.1, but it just doesn't seem to work for me.
I go to Preferences > Fonts, Layouts and Textclasses then select
'font-ital', then press 'Modify'. I enter my shortcut (alt-cmd-I),
then press 'OK'.
LyX then showed that I how had *two* entries for font-ital, the
original with no shortcut and a new one below it with my shortcut.
(This is a bit confusing, as I asked it to *Modify* the entry, not
create a new duplicate.) I note there is a "feature" whereby a user
can 'Remove' actions with shortcuts assigned to them, but not those
without shortcuts assigned to them. None of the actions with
shortcuts assigned to them have a "duplicate" with no shortcut, only
the new one I have added/modified.
In any event, now back in my text, I select some text and press
alt-cmd-I and nothing happens.
I have tried quite a number of different shortcuts and the outcomes
is always the same: no action is taken on applying the shortcut to
selected text.
I would appreciate it if anyone can advise me what the problem is.
I am aware that there is a type called "emphasis", but to me that
reads as "what the system decides at some later time to represent
emphasis". I want italics, and *only* italics. Emphasis could in
principle be any number of a range of things, e.g. small caps,
boldface, an alternative font type, etc. (For example, names of
animal species must be in italics, not some arbitrary "emphasis" type
of the writer's choice.)
I have tried creating new shortcuts from scratch (using 'New' rather
than 'Modify') but this doesn't provide a work-around: still no
activity.
I've also tried using it in different Spaces, but that doesn't seem
to be the issue.
Furthermore, LyX crashed on me (ironically while trying to save a
file on quitting). One unexpected thing here was that it asked me to
save the file, claiming the backup was newer, but I hadn't touched
the file in quite some time, so the automatic save should have meant
that both the backup and current file had the same date/time. Anyway,
in doing so it "forgot" what windows I had open.
Grant
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