BH -
This certainly is progress---thanks. Also dialog-show-new-inset citation opens
the citation dialog. Is there a way to jump directly to the OK button after
choosing a cross-reference from the list in the dialog instead of pushing tab 6
times?
Hal
On Sep 4, 2010, at 4:10 PM, BH wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Hal Kierstead <kierst...@asu.edu> wrote:
>> All -
>>
>> I find the pop-up windows for Insert-Citation and Insert-Cross-Reference
>> quite annoying. It is nice to have a list of choices, and to be able to use
>> the mouse to choose among them, but this should not be required. Most of
>> the time I already know what I want. It would be really nice if I could
>> just type the tex command \cite{E} or \ref{d} or \eqref{w}, or something
>> similar.
>>
>> Is there is already a way to do something similar? Embedding tex does not
>> seem a good alternative.
>>
>> Currently it does not seem possible to make a shortcut for
>> Insert-Cross-Reference from within LyX. I am using a Mac, and made a menu
>> shortcut in OSX. This works fine, except that the first time I use I must
>> open it from the menu by hand. Is this an OSX flaw or a LyX flaw?
>
> Neither, actually. I have, for example, <Cmd><Shift>-I R mapped to
> dialog-show-new-inset ref in my custom shortcuts, and I can then
> insert cross-references using only the keyboard. Look at LyX >
> Preferences > Editing > Shortcuts (and see §C.2.2.2 of the User's
> Guide).
>
> BH
