Re: Paragraph questions

2000-10-26 Thread Benjamin Karas
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Amir Karger wrote: > I agree that it's illogical that when you change docs or paragraphs or > whatever the dialogs don't notice. > > On the other hand, lets say I want to take 10 different paragraphs and add a > space after each and make some other changes. (Answer: I should

Re: Paragraph questions

2000-10-18 Thread Allan Rae
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Juergen Vigna wrote: > On 18-Oct-2000 Allan Rae wrote: > > > ¹ What do we put in the Paragraph dialog in that case? > > It would seem likely we'd have to either: > > 1 fill with the first paragraphs details > > 2 fill with the last paragraphs details > >

Re: Paragraph questions

2000-10-18 Thread Juergen Vigna
On 18-Oct-2000 Allan Rae wrote: > ¹ What do we put in the Paragraph dialog in that case? > It would seem likely we'd have to either: > 1 fill with the first paragraphs details > 2 fill with the last paragraphs details > 3 fill with some set of average details > 4 just u

Re: Paragraph questions

2000-10-17 Thread Allan Rae
On 17 Oct 2000, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Andre> I think it would be nicer if float numbers (representing the > Andre> number of "em") could be given at this place. It's a major pain > Andre> to get a "correct" label width using

Re: Paragraph questions

2000-10-17 Thread Allan Rae
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, John Levon wrote: > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Amir Karger wrote: > > > I agree that it's illogical that when you change docs or paragraphs or > > whatever the dialogs don't notice. > > > > On the other hand, lets say I want to take 10 different paragraphs and add a > > space aft

Re: Paragraph questions

2000-10-17 Thread John Levon
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Amir Karger wrote: > I agree that it's illogical that when you change docs or paragraphs or > whatever the dialogs don't notice. > > On the other hand, lets say I want to take 10 different paragraphs and add a > space after each and make some other changes. (Answer: I should

Re: Paragraph questions

2000-10-17 Thread Amir Karger
On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:56:08PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, John Levon wrote: > > > The first in a short series of dumb questions. Hints please ! I haven't been following this very much; it's all over my head. But there is one thing I was thinking. > > 4) OK/Apply will app

Re: Paragraph questions

2000-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> Would be ok, even if I doubt that there are many .layouts out Andre> there except those in the LyX tree that rely on the "old" Andre> behaviour. You never know. I am sure that many people have made their own copy of some layouts i

Re: Paragraph questions

2000-10-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
> We could try to use a special function instead of lyxfont::width to > check first if the string is a valid length, and use the old way > otherwide. Would be ok, even if I doubt that there are many .layouts out there except those in the LyX tree that rely on the "old" behaviour. Andre' -- And

Re: Paragraph questions

2000-10-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> I think it would be nicer if float numbers (representing the Andre> number of "em") could be given at this place. It's a major pain Andre> to get a "correct" label width using letters only if you have a Andre> .sty that uses a labe

Re: Paragraph questions

2000-10-17 Thread Andre Poenitz
> It's used for specifying how wide the labels will be and is used by LaTeX > to get all the lists aligned even though the items have different length > labels. If that makes sense. Usually the width is specified as a series > of capital M's however the user could alternately just write in the n

Re: Paragraph questions

2000-10-16 Thread John Levon
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Allan Rae wrote: > I'm glad you didn't say a dumb series of short questions because that'd be > an even worse description. > :) > It's used for specifying how wide the labels will be and is used by LaTeX > to get all the lists aligned even though the items have different

Re: Paragraph questions

2000-10-16 Thread Allan Rae
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, John Levon wrote: > > The first in a short series of dumb questions. Hints please ! I'm glad you didn't say a dumb series of short questions because that'd be an even worse description. 1) and 2): No idea. > 3) What does labelwidth do in the List environment ? How shoul