Re: Intuitive views of nesting -- conglomerate

1999-12-14 Thread Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen
Regarding the LyX file format: There will not be any mayor changes in the LyX format for a long time. First, we focus on the general clean-up (very much in progress) and the GUI independence. This job will take a long time to finish. A rough estimate is around a year, judging from the current

Re: Intuitive views of nesting -- conglomerate

1999-12-14 Thread Andre' Poenitz
> On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > > That doesn't sound too bad, does it? The last time I remember lars talking > > about it, he wanted to make it a bit more like html (xml?) where you'd have > > begins and ends, not just begins, and perhaps better structuring for > > nesting. But that wa

Re: Intuitive views of nesting -- conglomerate

1999-12-13 Thread Jules Bean
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Amir Karger wrote: > > That doesn't sound too bad, does it? The last time I remember lars talking > about it, he wanted to make it a bit more like html (xml?) where you'd have > begins and ends, not just begins, and perhaps better structuring for > nesting. But that was mont

Re: Intuitive views of nesting -- conglomerate

1999-12-13 Thread Amir Karger
(Duncan tried to get me to claim responsibility for my answer by addressing a mail privately to me. I won't fall for it! People with a clue are invited to respond.) On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 09:54:38PM +, Duncan Simpson wrote: > [re changes in the LyX file format] > > Are the changes drastic en

Re: Intuitive views of nesting -- conglomerate

1999-12-12 Thread Amir Karger
On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 02:22:46PM +, Duncan Simpson wrote: > > BTW A really good description of .lyx format, particuilarly in the table > area, would propel a .lyx word2x output stage higher up the word2x TODO > list. I don't know what your experience with Perl is, but you might find the Re

Re: Intuitive views of nesting -- conglomerate

1999-12-07 Thread Duncan Simpson
This almost sounds like emacs outline mode which, as far as I have read the manual, makes paragraph of lower section level than n invisible. You can expand everything, just individual sections and so forth. I guess apporpiate code hacks would allow lyx to do the same (replace the not shown par

Re: Intuitive views of nesting -- conglomerate

1999-12-07 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 7 Dec 1999, Allan Rae wrote: > On 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > > "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Jules> Have a look at the screenshots. That's the kind of thing I was > > Jules> thinking of. > > > > This indeed looks like an interesting pr

Re: Intuitive views of nesting -- conglomerate

1999-12-06 Thread Allan Rae
On 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jules> Have a look at the screenshots. That's the kind of thing I was > Jules> thinking of. > > This indeed looks like an interesting project. However, I think that > this interface adds way

Re: Intuitive views of nesting -- conglomerate

1999-12-06 Thread Jules Bean
On 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jules> I had some idea in the back of my head where the nesting would > Jules> be shown as tidy little bars in the left margin. In ugly ascii > Jules> art, something like this maybe > > Jule

Re: Intuitive views of nesting -- conglomerate

1999-12-06 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Jules" == Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jules> I had some idea in the back of my head where the nesting would Jules> be shown as tidy little bars in the left margin. In ugly ascii Jules> art, something like this maybe Jules> + My structured Document | | + 1 Introduction | | | | B

Re: Intuitive views of nesting -- conglomerate

1999-12-06 Thread Seak, Teng-Fong
Jules Bean wrote: > One of my personal wishlists for LyX is a better intuitive view of nesting > structure. I seem to frequently work in highly nested documents, and it's > not always immediately clear exactly what the 'change environment depth' > command is doing. > > I had some idea in the bac