Chris,
I am trying to get my hands on LyX by writing a small report with it. So far,
it's okay, although I'm typing much slower than with TeXmacs at the moment.
I have one question : typing ending and closing parentheses that scale with
content is quite common in mathematical formulas, and in TeXmacs the default
setting was to insert both of them when typing only "(".
In LyX there is, of course the same thing, in the toolbar and by typing "^M (",
but is there a way to do that like I did in TeXmacs? I tried editing the
shortcut, but it won't let me set it to "(" only, complaining about some
"self-insert" function that already has a shortcut (I'm guessing this is the
"(" character itself).
Thanks for the help!
François-Xavier Thomas
On Oct 24, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote:
> On Oct 24, 2011, at 4:05 PM, François-Xavier Thomas wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the answer, Chris! I activated completion in the
>> preferences, and it's working fine.
>> It's quite different than what I'm used to (I almost know nothing
>> about LaTeX, never took the time to learn it since TeXmacs is hiding
>> actual commands), but I'm going to try it and see where it goes.
>
> Great! You'll find the LyX list to be full of helpful folks. I've used
> TeXmacs and it's very cool, but I find LyX to be a lot faster and far more
> flexible (though as always YMMV). Good luck!
>
> -chris
>
