Re: Comment on arrow discussion

1999-02-23 Thread mressler
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, John Weiss wrote: > OTOH, the "->" should NOT turn into ERT in the manuals. Um, this is what I meant. I can't live without a little ERT elsewhere. Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Comment on arrow discussion

1999-02-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "alstrup" == alstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> plain white triangle is good enough for now. We just have to get a >> better looking display on screen. Could somebody (asger?) make it >> draw a non-purple triangle? alstrup> When I find the time. I'll find it before the 1st of March,

Re: Comment on arrow discussion

1999-02-23 Thread alstrup
> plain white triangle is good enough for now. We just have to get a > better looking display on screen. Could somebody (asger?) make it draw > a non-purple triangle? When I find the time. I'll find it before the 1st of March, promise, but other than that I can't say when. Greets, Asger

Re: Comment on arrow discussion

1999-02-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Mate" == Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mate> On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 10:07:42AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Mate> wrote: >> > "John" == John Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> Okay, so the triangle is an appropriate mnemonic for submenus. John> What about menu items? Su

Re: Comment on arrow discussion

1999-02-23 Thread Mate Wierdl
On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 10:07:42AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "John" == John Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John> Okay, so the triangle is an appropriate mnemonic for submenus. > John> What about menu items? Surely there is no triangle for menu > John> items. As in the menus

Re: Comment on arrow discussion

1999-02-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "John" == John Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: John> On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 03:17:57PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: >> but why not use the math \rightarrow, in math mode, >> >> Again, $\to$ is more economical. In defense of triangleright: I >> just looked how the submenus are indicated on

Re: Comment on arrow discussion

1999-02-23 Thread John Weiss
On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 08:50:41AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure I like the triangle solution that has been presented, but I > can live with it. What I do want to stress, though, is that the accepted > solution SHOULD NOT BE ERT IN THE LYX FILE! Sorry about the shouting,

Re: Comment on arrow discussion

1999-02-23 Thread John Weiss
On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 06:01:30PM +0100, Peter Suetterlin wrote: > > I was quite content with the -> solution as long as the display in LyX > is concerned. However, it looks horrible when printed. That's why we > used the arrow. Yes. "->" was a compromise; it looks okay online, but not-so-h

Re: Comment on arrow discussion

1999-02-23 Thread John Weiss
On Fri, Feb 19, 1999 at 03:17:57PM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote: > but why not use the math \rightarrow, in math mode, > > Again, $\to$ is more economical. > In defense of triangleright: I just looked how the submenus are > indicated on my window manager's menu. They are triangleright. The Oka

Re: Comment on arrow discussion

1999-02-20 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
> Hi, I'm not sure I like the triangle solution that has been > presented, but I can live with it. What I do want to stress, > though, is that the accepted solution SHOULD NOT BE ERT IN THE > LYX FILE! Sorry about the shouting, but I feel strongly on this > one, and I'm sure John W

Re: Comment on arrow discussion

1999-02-19 Thread Mate Wierdl
I think the original objection to this was that you have to go into math mode to use it. Define a macro (as I suggested in my first post) and you will not have to bother with math mode. Mate

Re: Comment on arrow discussion

1999-02-19 Thread Mate Wierdl
but why not use the math \rightarrow, in math mode, Again, $\to$ is more economical. In defense of triangleright: I just looked how the submenus are indicated on my window manager's menu. They are triangleright. The wm is windowmaker, but I see the same under fvwm2. In any case, it was alr

Re: Comment on arrow discussion

1999-02-19 Thread mressler
Oh, BTW, I'm bringing this all up again because I assume it will fall to me to change this everywhere in the documentation :-) or is that :-( or perhaps :+| (punched nose) I just want to make darn sure there is a "correct" solution in place before I start hacking on 300+ pages of documentation ag

Re: Comment on arrow discussion

1999-02-19 Thread mressler
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Carl Ollivier-Gooch wrote: > Um, I hate to burst in on all the complex scheming going on for this > issue, but why not use the math \rightarrow, in math mode, which LyX > already displays as an arrow? Wouldn't this be much simpler, at least > until such time as we support di

Re: Comment on arrow discussion

1999-02-19 Thread Carl Ollivier-Gooch
On 19-Feb-99 Peter Suetterlin wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm not sure I like the triangle solution that has been presented, but I >> can live with it. What I do want to stress, though, is that the accepted >> solution SHOULD NOT BE ERT IN THE LYX FILE! Sorry about the shouting

Re: Comment on arrow discussion

1999-02-19 Thread Peter Suetterlin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm not sure I like the triangle solution that has been presented, but I > can live with it. What I do want to stress, though, is that the accepted > solution SHOULD NOT BE ERT IN THE LYX FILE! Sorry about the shouting, but > I feel strongly on this one, and I'm

Re: Comment on arrow discussion

1999-02-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Mike" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mike> Hi, I'm not sure I like the triangle solution that has been Mike> presented, but I can live with it. What I do want to stress, Mike> though, is that the accepted solution SHOULD NOT BE ERT IN THE Mike> LYX FILE! Sorry about the shouting, but I f