Re: LyX Wishlist [was: 2.5 Beta1]

2025-07-27 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Sun, Jul 27, 2025 at 11:03:42AM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > I don't think it requires a package. We just share InsetGraphicsParams > among the insets in the same group. Correct. Pavel -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org https://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel

Re: LyX Wishlist [was: 2.5 Beta1]

2025-07-27 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 7/27/25 5:03 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Am Samstag, dem 26.07.2025 um 12:28 -0400 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck: Graphics groups are provided by a LaTeX package, I believe, so the first question is whether there is support for this kind of thing in LaTeX. I don't think it requires a packa

Re: LyX Wishlist [was: 2.5 Beta1]

2025-07-27 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Am Samstag, dem 26.07.2025 um 12:28 -0400 schrieb Richard Kimberly Heck: > > 1. Full support for Unicode. What I mean is Unicode in program > > listings. I experimented with this some 6 months ago, but it was > > problematic... and lots of warnings about making my Windows > > computer unsafe. > >

Re: LyX Wishlist [was: 2.5 Beta1]

2025-07-26 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 7/26/25 12:28 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: 4. There are a few symbols I miss, e.g., * the "plimsoll" symbol used for standard state in thermodynamics (    ). I believe I have done this for 2.5. Riki -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org https://lists.lyx.org/mailman/list

Re: LyX Wishlist [was: 2.5 Beta1]

2025-07-26 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
Hi, Bernt, Significant additional new features in 2.5 are unlikely, as we will enter 'feature freeze' soon and focus on fixing bugs. But you should feel free to file enchancement requests (bug reports) for all these. Some of them could be done in the 2.5.x series. 1. Full support for Unic

Re: Wishlist for future LyX

2016-06-07 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/07/2016 12:27 PM, Edwin Leuven wrote: > On 03 Jun 2016, at 18:35, Helge Hafting wrote: >> here are some wishes for the future: > Hide changes (in lyx) Some work was done on this a few years ago by me and Vincent. I think all of it is in his features/HideChanges branch. If I remember right,

Re: Wishlist for future LyX

2016-06-07 Thread Edwin Leuven
On 03 Jun 2016, at 18:35, Helge Hafting wrote: > > Now that we have 2.2.0, I love the new shiny lyx on my retina screen congrats on a great job! > here are some wishes for the future: Hide changes (in lyx) ... Fwiw ;-)

Wishlist for future LyX

2016-06-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Now that we have 2.2.0, here are some wishes for the future: Enumeration style document setting == GUI for setting the numbering style, similiar to what we already have for bullet lists. I.e. the default for the 4 levels are "1.", "(a)", "i.", "A." The gui would change that

Re: Wishlist item: "Copy as reference" use the previously used reference format?

2010-03-29 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Helge Hafting wrote: > "Copy as reference" is very useful - the writer avoids dialog boxes > completely. > > But the reference format is always "". > > Some documents use mostly " on page ", or  maybe only > "" > > It'd be very nice if LyX could use the "last refer

Wishlist item: "Copy as reference" use the previously used reference format?

2010-03-24 Thread Helge Hafting
"Copy as reference" is very useful - the writer avoids dialog boxes completely. But the reference format is always "". Some documents use mostly " on page ", or maybe only "" It'd be very nice if LyX could use the "last reference format used", instead of just defaulting to . So, if the wri

Re: Wishlist: groups for "program listings" similiar to "graphics groups"

2010-02-08 Thread Bo Peng
> After applying lots of such settings over and over, a grouping would > be useful, in the same manner as for graphics. When several listings belong > to the same group, changing settings for one changes the settings for all in > that group. And new code snippets just need to be added to the correc

Wishlist: groups for "program listings" similiar to "graphics groups"

2010-02-05 Thread Helge Hafting
When writing a text about programming, there are tons of program code examples. And they usually have similiar settings. I.e. all are the same programming language and the same dialect with the same font options. After applying lots of such settings over and over, a grouping would be useful, in

Wishlist: assignment of graphichs groups

2010-02-05 Thread Helge Hafting
The "graphic groups" in lyx is a nice timesaver, no need to apply the same settings over and over. Just put the images in the same group. My wish for a slight improvement: Whenever a new graphic is created, put it in the same group as the previous graphic object the user dealt with. Currently,

Re: Wishlist items - document templates

2010-02-05 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-02-04, Helge Hafting wrote: > "File->New from Template" currently shows only templates in > /usr/share/lyx/templates. > The dialog ought to have a couple of shortcut buttons: "system > templates" and "private templates" that goes directly to these two > directories. Seconded. > The re

Wishlist items - document templates

2010-02-04 Thread Helge Hafting
"File->New from Template" currently shows only templates in /usr/share/lyx/templates. The dialog ought to have a couple of shortcut buttons: "system templates" and "private templates" that goes directly to these two directories. The reason is to have easy access to both the templates that co

Re: Wishlist: let active branches add to the exported filename

2009-07-04 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Helge Hafting wrote: If it seems like "nothing happened" UI-wise, then have the status area proudly display something like "document.pdf successfully exported!". +1 This kind of feedback is ideal, because the user is _not_ forced to dismiss some stupid dialog box. So the

Re: Wishlist: let active branches add to the exported filename

2009-07-03 Thread Helge Hafting
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Enrico Forestieri writes: I think that the simplest and best way to handle this is allowing to change name (and location) of the exported file through a file dialog. Not everybody knows that, when exporting, the file will be located next to the lyx file and, UI wise,

Re: Wishlist: let active branches add to the exported filename

2009-07-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Enrico Forestieri writes: > I think that the simplest and best way to handle this is allowing to > change name (and location) of the exported file through a file dialog. > Not everybody knows that, when exporting, the file will be located next > to the lyx file and, UI wise, it is bad that nothing

Re: Wishlist: let active branches add to the exported filename

2009-07-02 Thread Enrico Forestieri
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 05:47:47PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Helge Hafting writes: > > > It is useful to give active branches opportunity to add to the > > filename of exported files. This way, exports with and without the > > branch won't collide. > > > > My common case: > > I make a

Re: Wishlist: let active branches add to the exported filename

2009-07-01 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
I'll just mention that what I do is create a new master document that has the correct branches enabled. In addition to giving the new version of the document a new name, this is particularly useful when there are many branches. For example the paper version may have e.g. branches for Topic A and C

Re: Wishlist: let active branches add to the exported filename

2009-07-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Helge Hafting wrote: >> Which name (if several active branches are involved)? > > The names of all active branches that has this box checked. I meant to > have one checkbox per branch. Yes, this strikes me sensible. I first thought Jean-Marc was thinking of one general check-box only. Jürgen

Re: Wishlist: let active branches add to the exported filename

2009-07-01 Thread Helge Hafting
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I have to say that I use that too. What we have to do is to find the correct, not over-engineered implementation. +1. The simplest would be a "add name when exporting" checkbox. That could maybe be done by a change to Buffer::latexName.

Re: Wishlist: let active branches add to the exported filename

2009-07-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Append all the names of the active branches which have "add name when > exporting" selected. Yes, that would work in most cases. Jürgen

Re: Wishlist: let active branches add to the exported filename

2009-07-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Jürgen Spitzmüller writes: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >> I have to say that I use that too. What we have to do is to find the >> correct, not over-engineered implementation. > > +1. > >> The simplest would be a "add name when exporting" checkbox. That could >> maybe be done by a change to Bu

Re: Wishlist: let active branches add to the exported filename

2009-07-01 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I have to say that I use that too. What we have to do is to find the > correct, not over-engineered implementation. +1. > The simplest would be a "add name when exporting" checkbox. That could > maybe be done by a change to Buffer::latexName. Which name (if several

Re: Wishlist: let active branches add to the exported filename

2009-07-01 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Helge Hafting writes: > It is useful to give active branches opportunity to add to the > filename of exported files. This way, exports with and without the > branch won't collide. > > My common case: > I make a test for my students, with answers in a "answers" branch. > When I export this to pdf,

Wishlist: let active branches add to the exported filename

2009-07-01 Thread Helge Hafting
It is useful to give active branches opportunity to add to the filename of exported files. This way, exports with and without the branch won't collide. My common case: I make a test for my students, with answers in a "answers" branch. When I export this to pdf, I get "test.pdf". After activatin

Re: A wishlist for LyX

2007-10-31 Thread Helge Hafting
Alexander Streit wrote: This is would be handy in my opinion. But, I would like to point out that the current automatic label is not quite unique enough. Correct. But LyX knows all its own labels, so this can be avoided with some programming. You might want to file a bug at bugzilla.lyx.org -

Re: A wishlist for LyX

2007-10-31 Thread Alexander Streit
This is would be handy in my opinion. But, I would like to point out that the current automatic label is not quite unique enough. For example, just today I inserted a label for a section called "Summary". The default label was "sec:Summary". Problem is, I have a "Summary" section in several chapte

Re: A wishlist for LyX

2007-10-31 Thread Helge Hafting
Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Richard Heck ha scritto: do something like hold down control+shift and click on a label to insert a reference to that label at the current cursor position. I'd like to suggest an alternative usage paradigm for this, conditioned to the implementation of context-sens

Re: A wishlist for LyX

2007-10-30 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Richard Heck ha scritto: do something like hold down control+shift and click on a label to insert a reference to that label at the current cursor position. I'd like to suggest an alternative usage paradigm for this, conditioned to the implementation of context-sensitive menus. The idea is:

Re: A wishlist for LyX

2007-10-29 Thread Richard Heck
Alexander Streit wrote: Something like this is already possible: Type Alt-I, C, start typing, hit Ctrl-Enter when you get the one you want. Yes, this works very well! Thanks, I didn't know about this and have been using the mouse for over 200 pages now, so you've saved me a lot of time! Fo

Re: A wishlist for LyX

2007-10-28 Thread Alexander Streit
Hi Richard, thanks for your comments. I've made my own inline below to clarify some points. On 10/29/07, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 3. auto-complete cite/crossref > > press a magic key and start typing. lyx will try to auto-complete > the > > author name & year. press enter

Re: A wishlist for LyX

2007-10-28 Thread Richard Heck
Many of these are reasonable ideas. You're welcome to add them to bugzilla. 1. todo tag puts a tag in (much like a comment), but also adds this to a list of some sort so that you can switch between items "todo" perhaps this todo tag could be placed in the headings to flag a section as nee

A wishlist for LyX

2007-10-27 Thread Alexander Streit
Hi developers, been writing on my thesis (love LyX for that) and collecting random ideas in a text file about improvements. Some of these may already be planned, some not. But if anyone is looking for something to add to LyX, then these are what I would have enjoyed. They are in rough order of pre

Re: Support for environments options ? wishlist idea for a general solution

2007-10-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Martin Vermeer wrote: On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 11:52:37PM +0200, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: Paul A. Rubin ha scritto: The way I enter an optional argument (when one is allowed) is to open the minibuffer (M-x or View -> Toolbars -> Command buffer) and type the command 'optional-insert'.

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-21 Thread John Weiss
On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 11:45:27AM +0100, Andre Poenitz wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:28:31PM -0500, Kuba Ober wrote: > > I didn't know LyX was that clean internally. For most other apps > > that would be close to a rewrite of the core parts. > > Guess what we did in the 1.4 cycle. Ain't it

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-18 Thread Andreas Vox
Kuba Ober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Without special provisions in the core, they would undo the globally most > recent action. Not nice but simple and save. > > Methinks the core has to associate a couple of stately* things with each > client. Undo history being one of them. And the u

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-18 Thread Kuba Ober
On wtorek 18 styczeÅ 2005 08:49 am, Andreas Vox wrote: > Kuba Ober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I rather think it is the user interface parts that need work in > > > such a case. The core shouldn't really see the difference between > > > two users updating one document, or one user moving > >

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-18 Thread Andreas Vox
Kuba Ober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I rather think it is the user interface parts that need work in > > such a case. The core shouldn't really see the difference between > > two users updating one document, or one user moving > > rapidly back and forth doing modifications in two places.

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-18 Thread Kuba Ober
> I rather think it is the user interface parts that need work in > such a case. The core shouldn't really see the difference between > two users updating one document, or one user moving > rapidly back and forth doing modifications in two places. :-) Makes sense. Kuba

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-15 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 03:28:31PM -0500, Kuba Ober wrote: > I didn't know LyX was that clean internally. For most other apps that would > be > close to a rewrite of the core parts. Guess what we did in the 1.4 cycle. Andre'

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-15 Thread John Weiss
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:53:52AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > I'll describe it as a change in viewpoint: instead of having the core > call the frontend (sounds a bit backwards, right?), we change it so > that it is the frontend that calls the core. > > My "vision" is that the core is almo

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Kuba Ober wrote: > >> Man, if you can do it in a week and it works then I'm donating a >> case of good >> >>beer (or a monetary equivalent) to the cause (seriously). >> >> I didn't know LyX was that clean internally. For most other apps >> that would be

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-14 Thread Helge Hafting
Kuba Ober wrote: Man, if you can do it in a week and it works then I'm donating a case of good beer (or a monetary equivalent) to the cause (seriously). I didn't know LyX was that clean internally. For most other apps that would be close to a rewrite of the core parts. I rather think it is t

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: >> | I didn't know LyX was that clean internally. For most other apps that >> | would be close to a rewrite of the core parts. >> >> Perhaps I am a bit too optimistic :-) >> >> The main work (before splitting in a server and

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-14 Thread Angus Leeming
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | I didn't know LyX was that clean internally. For most other apps that > | would be close to a rewrite of the core parts. > > Perhaps I am a bit too optimistic :-) > > The main work (before splitting in a server and client) would be to > change the interface between

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-14 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Kuba Ober <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> | I think we could have saved some time, if we were able to work both on a >> | single document at the same time. So I propose a >> | server-client-architecture for LyX that works in the same way as the >> | "team modus" of starcraft. One opens a server wi

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-13 Thread Kuba Ober
> | I think we could have saved some time, if we were able to work both on a > | single document at the same time. So I propose a > | server-client-architecture for LyX that works in the same way as the > | "team modus" of starcraft. One opens a server with the document to edit > | and other peopl

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Andreas Vox wrote: > What about the buffer? I think the lyx-paragraphs should be on the > server but the cursor position at the client (I dont know the current > code too well, maybe they are already separated) They are. This is equivalent to having multiple views into the document. That's somethi

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-13 Thread Andreas Vox
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Lars Gullik BjÃnnes wrote: > > Actaully this wouldn't be _that_ hard, it is all about having a nice > > protocol between the gui and the core. I guess I could do it in a > > week. This also fits quite well with some other cleanup that I'd > > really l

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-13 Thread Andreas Vox
Lars Gullik BjÃnnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: < < Tobias Spranger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: < < | Hello, < > < | I think we could have saved some time, if we were able to work both on a < | single document at the same time. So I propose a server-client-architecture < | for LyX that works

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-13 Thread Angus Leeming
Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Actaully this wouldn't be _that_ hard, it is all about having a nice > protocol between the gui and the core. I guess I could do it in a > week. This also fits quite well with some other cleanup that I'd > really like to do, but there are problems as well... security is

Re: [wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-13 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Tobias Spranger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Hello, > | I think we could have saved some time, if we were able to work both on a | single document at the same time. So I propose a server-client-architecture | for LyX that works in the same way as the "team modus" of starcraft. One | opens a s

[wishlist] server-client-architecture for LyX

2005-01-13 Thread Tobias Spranger
Hello, last year a colleague and me had to write a script for my professor. So we took our laptops, and wrote the script during the lesson. Of course, we used LyX for text and formulas and xfig for graphs! My colleague was an faster typer, so he typed text and me made formulaes and graphs. Our

Re: mathed wishlist --- almost supported already?

2001-09-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:44:27PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > On the same lines, if I type \mathtt{Angus} and then paste it into mathed: > beautiful. Do the same within mathed and only the "A" is typeset. Perhaps > these font commands should use the macro display mechanism? That would be the

mathed wishlist --- almost supported already?

2001-09-04 Thread Angus Leeming
Two more wishlist items that appear to be "almost" officically supported already: 1. If I right as normal text \mathcal{B}, highlight it and convert it to math with M-c m, I get a nicely typeset B. It'd be nice to do this directly in mathed too. I _can_ type "\mathcal B

Re: Wishlist

2001-06-28 Thread Thomas Steffen
Uli Sorger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First, I'd like to have better large document support. Indeed. A folding mode would be cute... > With TeX parts the document can be typeset using the \includeonly (?) > command with correct cross references. You can typeset even "part" documents in la

Wishlist

2001-06-28 Thread Uli Sorger
Hi all, I use LyX almost daily for more than a year now and still like it:) I am currently writing a large document and I usually do a lot of (re)editing of small text fragments. I think that this is often the case if you are writing scientific stuff. LyX is here a wonderful to

Wishlist: natbib/citet

2000-05-09 Thread Ralph Aichinger
Hello! I've started to use LyX recently and I am already convinced that this is the best affordable Document preparation system available. I wish to thank you very much for what you already have accomplished. There is one feature I would *really* like, because it would make doing citations a lo

Re: Wishlist: Special Chars

1999-04-27 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Peter" == Peter Suetterlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> HiYa! Peter> Since 1.0.2 is at the door, the developers surely have a lot of Peter> time for 1.1 the next time :-) So now it's time to bore them Peter> with wishes for the new toy. Peter> What I do miss is native support for

Wishlist: Special Chars

1999-04-26 Thread Peter Suetterlin
HiYa! Since 1.0.2 is at the door, the developers surely have a lot of time for 1.1 the next time :-) So now it's time to bore them with wishes for the new toy. What I do miss is native support for two quite often used (at least by me) special characters in LyX: A "short blank" (\,) and the no

Re: Wishlist

1999-04-06 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Bernd Noll writes: BN> Sorry for not making things clear - I referred to character BN> styles ... the (currently) only way to access those, are the BN> three buttons emph, caps & user-style in the toolbar; a selector BN> like for parastyles would be nice, but the possibility to add

Re: Wishlist

1999-04-01 Thread John Weiss
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 12:11:58PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > >> John Weiss writes: > JW> BTW: As Lars mentioned, there will be eventual support for > JW> ulem.sty, which, IIRC, permits you to alter how citations appear > JW> in the text [the type of parens, etc.] > > No that is

Re: Wishlist

1999-03-31 Thread Bernd Noll
[John Weiss] > > > 5. other types of cross-referencing than just "Ref" & "Pageref" - > >e.g. also with user-definable form > > I'm something of a LaTeXpert, and I have *no* *clue* how to do other > cross-referencing beyond section number and page number references. > What else *would* you cro

Re: Wishlist

1999-03-31 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> John Weiss writes: JW> BTW: As Lars mentioned, there will be eventual support for JW> ulem.sty, which, IIRC, permits you to alter how citations appear JW> in the text [the type of parens, etc.] No that is not ulem.sty (underlinedemphasis.sty). However I am sure there is a package to m

Re: Wishlist

1999-03-31 Thread Jose Abilio Oliveira Matos
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 05:59:26PM -0500, John Weiss wrote: [...] > I'm something of a LaTeXpert, and I have *no* *clue* how to do other > cross-referencing beyond section number and page number references. > What else *would* you cross-reference? Besides which, LaTeX only has > support for sect

Re: Wishlist

1999-03-29 Thread John Weiss
On Fri, Mar 26, 1999 at 02:23:59PM +0100, Bernd Noll wrote: > Hi all! > > Have some wishes/suggestions for the next version of LyX :)) > > 5. other types of cross-referencing than just "Ref" & "Pageref" - >e.g. also with user-definable form I'm something of a LaTeXpert, and I have *no* *clu

Re: Wishlist

1999-03-28 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
>> Bernd Noll writes: BN> Hi all! Have some wishes/suggestions for the next version of LyX BN> :)) BN> LyX internal ... BN> 1. Character Styles Strikethrough & Changebar ( it would be BN> great, if there was an option to automatically set changebars on BN> to everey added characte

Re: Wishlist

1999-03-26 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
>3. conditional text (might be treated in a very similar way like > named character styles; except for the fact, that their visibilty > (or appearance in exported files) may be switched on/off) You can have this right now with the mm patch. It's not stable enough for the main release, and

Wishlist

1999-03-26 Thread Bernd Noll
Hi all! Have some wishes/suggestions for the next version of LyX :)) LyX internal ... 1. Character Styles Strikethrough & Changebar ( it would be great, if there was an option to automatically set changebars on to everey added character ) Ok, it's possible to add it via direct latexin