Re: LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-23 Thread Wolfgang Keller
> Now I'd like to ask another favor: a quicker way to apply character > styles. As it stands now, > > * Highlight > * rightclick > * Select Text Style to pop up the text style menu > * Select your character style off that popup. Applications with a well-dsigned GUI use a listbox that can be floa

Re: LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-22 Thread Richard Heck
On 07/21/2013 04:40 PM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 21/07/2013 20:30, Steve Litt a écrit : Anyway, today I'm going to try almost exactly what you suggested, except I'm not going to include the separator or the elements. I want this thing to be 100% pure character styles and nothing else. If i

Re: LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
22/07/2013 16:34, Richard Heck: Steve, you can copy the stdmenus.inc file into your local LyX user directory, e.g., to ~/.lyx/ui/stdmenus.inc LyX will then use your local version, and you do not have to modify the system version. I think that creating a dummy file that includes default.ui

Re: LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-21 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 21/07/2013 9:38 p.m., Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 21/07/2013 02:39, Andrew Parsloe a écrit : I find it convenient to also have a shortcut to jump out of an inset. The right arrow key is a bit of a stretch and I like to have something lying more naturally under the fingers. I use Ctrl+J (J

Re: LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 21/07/2013 23:41, Steve Litt a écrit : Elements are, as I remember, that thing where you can apply italics, or small caps, or bold, etc with radio buttons. In other words, fingerpainting without ERT. The sworn enemy of WYSIWYM. This prompted me to actually read the source. Elements are one o

Re: LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 22:40:45 +0200 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 21/07/2013 20:30, Steve Litt a écrit : > > Anyway, today I'm going to try almost exactly what you suggested, > > except I'm not going to include the separator or the elements. I > > want this thing to be 100% pure character style

Re: LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 21/07/2013 20:30, Steve Litt a écrit : Anyway, today I'm going to try almost exactly what you suggested, except I'm not going to include the separator or the elements. I want this thing to be 100% pure character styles and nothing else. If it works, this is going to significantly speed up my w

Re: LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 14:35:55 +0200 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 21/07/2013 13:21, Steve Litt a écrit : > > My only question is this: Other than > > modifying /usr/share/lyx/ui/stdmenus.inc, what file can I put it > > in? I'd like to modify some file under my home directory so it > > survives

Re: LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 21/07/2013 13:21, Steve Litt a écrit : My only question is this: Other than modifying /usr/share/lyx/ui/stdmenus.inc, what file can I put it in? I'd like to modify some file under my home directory so it survives LyX upgrades. It seems that I anwered 1 minute too late :) Is it clearer with m

Re: LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 06:53:32 -0400 Steve Litt wrote: > On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 11:47:43 +0200 > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > > Le 21/07/2013 00:56, Steve Litt a écrit : > > > You know what I'd like to see? For starters, put Customize, > > > Capitalize, Uppercase, Lowercase, and Dissolve somewher

Re: LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 21/07/2013 12:53, Steve Litt a écrit : In which file do I define the menu this way? Here is what I would try : create a file mydefault.ui Format 1 Include "default.ui" Menu "charstyles" CharStyles Separator Elements End Put the file in the ui/ subdirectory of your

Re: LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-21 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 11:47:43 +0200 Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 21/07/2013 00:56, Steve Litt a écrit : > > You know what I'd like to see? For starters, put Customize, > > Capitalize, Uppercase, Lowercase, and Dissolve somewhere else, > > leaving only true character styles on the Alt+E,S menu.

Re: LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 21/07/2013 00:56, Steve Litt a écrit : You know what I'd like to see? For starters, put Customize, Capitalize, Uppercase, Lowercase, and Dissolve somewhere else, leaving only true character styles on the Alt+E,S menu. Second, code the Alt+E,S menu so typing a letter would move the highlight to

Re: LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 21/07/2013 02:39, Andrew Parsloe a écrit : I find it convenient to also have a shortcut to jump out of an inset. The right arrow key is a bit of a stretch and I like to have something lying more naturally under the fingers. I use Ctrl+J (J for Jump) for that purpose, assigned to What's wrong

Re: LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-20 Thread Andrew Parsloe
On 21/07/2013 10:56 a.m., Steve Litt wrote: Hi all, First of all, thank you for adding Character Styles in LyX 1.4.x in 2006. As far as I'm concerned, character styles was the last thing LyX needed to be complete. Now I'd like to ask another favor: a quicker way to apply character styles. As i

LyX needs a quicker way to apply character styles

2013-07-20 Thread Steve Litt
Hi all, First of all, thank you for adding Character Styles in LyX 1.4.x in 2006. As far as I'm concerned, character styles was the last thing LyX needed to be complete. Now I'd like to ask another favor: a quicker way to apply character styles. As it stands now, * Highlight * rightclick * Sele