Re: Suggestion

2023-12-08 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 12/7/23 14:38, Christopher Menzel wrote: On Dec 6, 2023, at 10:28 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 12/6/23 15:55, Christopher Menzel wrote: On Dec 6, 2023, at 2:05 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 12/6/23 05:24, Patrick Dupre via lyx-users wrote: Hello, Can I suggest to have in t

Re: Suggestion

2023-12-07 Thread Christopher Menzel
On Dec 6, 2023, at 10:28 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > > On 12/6/23 15:55, Christopher Menzel wrote: >>> On Dec 6, 2023, at 2:05 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck >>> wrote: >>> On 12/6/23 05:24, Patrick Dupre via lyx-users wrote: Hello, Can I suggest to have in the "View" tab an o

Re: Suggestion

2023-12-07 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 12/7/23 03:50, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Don't the new controls for zoom show the bindings in their tooltip? They should. If you left-click on the zoom number itself, you get a little menu. But it's not easily discoverable. Right-clicking anywhere on the bottom bit gives you a choice of

Re: Suggestion

2023-12-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Don't the new controls for zoom show the bindings in their tooltip? They should. Jmarc Le 7 décembre 2023 05:28:06 GMT+01:00, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit : >On 12/6/23 15:55, Christopher Menzel wrote: >>> On Dec 6, 2023, at 2:05 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck >>> wrote: >>> On 12/6/23 05:24, Pat

Re: Suggestion

2023-12-06 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 12/6/23 15:55, Christopher Menzel wrote: On Dec 6, 2023, at 2:05 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 12/6/23 05:24, Patrick Dupre via lyx-users wrote: Hello, Can I suggest to have in the "View" tab an option to zoom in, and zoom out? It could be also a short cut to generate these behaviors

Re: Suggestion

2023-12-06 Thread Christopher Menzel
> On Dec 6, 2023, at 2:05 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: > On 12/6/23 05:24, Patrick Dupre via lyx-users wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Can I suggest to have in the "View" tab an option to zoom in, and zoom out? >> It could be also a short cut to generate these behaviors like ctl -, and >> ctl + or Up

Re: Suggestion

2023-12-06 Thread Patrick Dupre via lyx-users
> On 12/6/23 05:24, Patrick Dupre via lyx-users wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Can I suggest to have in the "View" tab an option to zoom in, and zoom out? > > It could be also a short cut to generate these behaviors like ctl -, and > > ctl + or Up ctl + > > Those shortcuts work here. You're on Fedora, r

Re: Suggestion

2023-12-06 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 12/6/23 05:24, Patrick Dupre via lyx-users wrote: Hello, Can I suggest to have in the "View" tab an option to zoom in, and zoom out? It could be also a short cut to generate these behaviors like ctl -, and ctl + or Up ctl + Those shortcuts work here. You're on Fedora, right? Me, too. Riki

Re: Suggestion to improve Lyx for LaTEX users

2015-06-11 Thread Georg Baum
Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > >> my case). I wonder if just having the option of opening an ERT itself in >> an external >> editor would help? >> > As it happens, this is the subject of: > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/7404 > > Georg even provid

Re: Suggestion to improve Lyx for LaTEX users

2015-06-10 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 06/10/2015 04:13 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: >>> >>> On 2015-06-10, Benedict Holland wrote: >>> Since there are already excellent Latex editors, I don't understand why it

Re: Suggestion to improve Lyx for LaTEX users

2015-06-10 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/10/2015 04:42 AM, Madhusudan Singh wrote: TeXmacs is a good alternative. Hiding away preamble stuff has always been sufficiently problematic for me for me not to take to LyX. Do you mean that you can't see the preamble stuff in the LyX document? There is an easy solution to this, if so

Re: Suggestion to improve Lyx for LaTEX users

2015-06-10 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/10/2015 04:13 AM, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2015-06-10, Benedict Holland wrote: Since there are already excellent Latex editors, I don't understand why it would be desirable for Lyx to incorporate such features. I love LyX, because I

Re: Suggestion to improve Lyx for LaTEX users

2015-06-10 Thread Madhusudan Singh
TeXmacs is a good alternative. Hiding away preamble stuff has always been sufficiently problematic for me for me not to take to LyX. I have not much used TeXmacs but it has a lot of this and more. For my documents, I stick to LaTeX with a live preview. Just can't beat that kind of power. On Wed

Re: Suggestion to improve Lyx for LaTEX users

2015-06-10 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2015-06-10, Benedict Holland wrote: > >> Since there are already excellent Latex editors, I don't >> understand why it would be desirable for Lyx to incorporate such features. > > I love LyX, because I can input math from the keyboard, wit

Re: Suggestion to improve Lyx for LaTEX users

2015-06-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2015-06-10, Benedict Holland wrote: > Since there are already excellent Latex editors, I don't > understand why it would be desirable for Lyx to incorporate such features. I love LyX, because I can input math from the keyboard, without click and search in menus and dragging around - just using

Re: Suggestion to improve Lyx for LaTEX users

2015-06-09 Thread Benedict Holland
I have to plug emacs for native lyx support. That application is awesome at parsing raw Latex. As Richard said, this is the antithesis of why anyone would use Lyx. I have become a huge fan of seamlessly integrating my latex documents, mostly tables, using the input command and editing the .tex file

Re: Suggestion to improve Lyx for LaTEX users

2015-06-09 Thread Richard Heck
On 06/09/2015 06:13 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 10:00:25PM +0100, Ricardo Gaspar wrote: Hi there, I am a new user of Lyx, but a not a beginner in LaTEX. Hi Ricardo, and welcome! It's nice to have a fresh perspective. Please keep providing feedback and if you happen to ha

Re: Suggestion to improve Lyx for LaTEX users

2015-06-09 Thread Christopher Menzel
Hi Ricardo, Can you provide an example of a situation where the feature in question would be useful? I composed in raw LaTeX for 20 years but since switching pretty much full-time to LyX several years ago I have yet to find a situation that LyX (plus perhaps a little ERT

Re: Suggestion to improve Lyx for LaTEX users

2015-06-09 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 10:00:25PM +0100, Ricardo Gaspar wrote: > Hi there, > > I am a new user of Lyx, but a not a beginner in LaTEX. Hi Ricardo, and welcome! It's nice to have a fresh perspective. Please keep providing feedback and if you happen to have the time and interests, patches or (if y

Re: suggestion: searchbar for insert special character

2011-07-08 Thread Diego Queiroz
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:37 AM, Neal Becker wrote: > I tried to insert a special character ½, and found it difficult to locate. > I > use kcharselect (from kde) to find it. It has a search bar. Just type in > the > term 'half', and it's the first thing shown (on my machine). > > My suggestion

RE: Suggestion for LyX

2009-11-26 Thread Rob Oakes
is free (as in beer) and cross platform. Cheers, Rob Oakes -Original Message- From: Erez Yerushalmi [mailto:erezyerusha...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 26, 2009 9:14 AM To: lyx-users Cc: Izwandy Idris Subject: Re: Suggestion for LyX Another recommendation is to take a look at a pr

Re: Suggestion for LyX

2009-11-26 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Another recommendation is to take a look at a program called Zotero. http://www.zotero.org/ In my opinion, it is nicer than Refworks or WritenCite They have a nice video explaining the main idea of Zotero. Erez On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:06 PM, rgheck wrote: > On 11/26/2009 07:36 AM, Izwandy

Re: Suggestion for LyX

2009-11-26 Thread rgheck
On 11/26/2009 07:36 AM, Izwandy Idris wrote: Hi there, I'm a new user of LyX and I found it very interesting (though I'm still struggling to get familiar with it). I'm currently writing my thesis and need to incorporate citation. At present, I'm using Refworks for my referencing works and cha

Re: Suggestion

2009-08-15 Thread Christian Ridderström
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 08:39:24AM -0400, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: , > thunderbird, kmail etc. allow you to move incoming mails into custom folders > based on criteria like To:,Cc: fields etc. Or the List-*: mail headers, which were designed partly

Re: Suggestion

2009-08-14 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Aug 14, K. Elo did say: > Subject: Suggestion > > Dear list members! > > I suppose most of us are members in other mailing lists, too, and thus > receive several mails per day from these lists. Now, several lists add a > list identifier at the beginning of the topic (e.g

Re: Suggestion

2009-08-14 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 08:39:24AM -0400, Manoj Rajagopalan wrote: , > thunderbird, kmail etc. allow you to move incoming mails into custom folders > based on criteria like To:,Cc: fields etc. Or the List-*: mail headers, which were designed partly for just that purpose. A -- Andrew Sullivan

Re: Suggestion

2009-08-14 Thread Manoj Rajagopalan
On Friday 14 August 2009 2:07:43 am K. Elo wrote: > Dear list members! > > I suppose most of us are members in other mailing lists, too, and thus > receive several mails per day from these lists. Now, several lists add a > list identifier at the beginning of the topic (e.g. "[List] Title"). > > Wha

Re: Suggestion

2009-08-14 Thread Erez Yerushalmi
Hi, I use google mail to collect university mail and private mail. Google has a 'label' option. So all my LyX mail gets a lyx label, which makes it easy to manage. I think it is the same idea as you're talking about, but I don't need the server side as you mention... Maybe this can help... Best

Re: Suggestion for bibliography

2008-03-23 Thread rgheck
James Mansion wrote: I find it distracting to have to go to the bibliography section and use the (handy!) bibiography editor and then go back to where I was to add a Citation. It would be really handy if the Add Citation dialog had an option to create a new one and pop in a reference to it in

Re: Suggestion

2005-11-08 Thread Georg Baum
Am Dienstag, 8. November 2005 17:47 schrieb Roy Schestowitz: > I noticed that too, but never complained. I re-adjusted my mind and got > accustomed *over time*. This behaviour is attributed to the LaTeX/LyX for- > mat underneath, yet a few tweaks could probably correct this. Selections > d

Re: Suggestion

2005-11-08 Thread Roy Schestowitz
_/ On Tue 08 Nov 2005 15:09:51 GMT, [Paul A. Rubin] wrote : \_ Alex Streit wrote: Hi all, I am using LyX 1.3.6 (Mac), although I've noticed the same behaviour on Linux and Windows builds. Yes, all are rather uniform in terms of their behaviour. One thing that keeps getting me is

Re: Suggestion

2005-11-08 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Alex Streit wrote: Hi all, I am using LyX 1.3.6 (Mac), although I've noticed the same behaviour on Linux and Windows builds. One thing that keeps getting me is that I find the selection behaviour un-intuitive. Because it is very much a character - to - character selection, which makes it hard t

Re: suggestion about "External material"

2004-06-22 Thread Angus Leeming
Gunnar G wrote: > Hello. > > When I use the "insert" --> "External material" dialog in a document, I > usually insert the same kind of material every time through out the > entire document. I rarely use the Chessdiagram so I must every time > change it to something else. This is annoying. Could i

Re: Suggestion about classes

2003-12-31 Thread James Frye
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Ingar Pareliussen wrote: > We have discussed such a system earlier, and to put it bluntly, it is > probably never going to happen. It is not impossible, but it is very hard > to do. First it needs to construct the latex and lyx class files, which is > complicated. It then need

Re: Suggestion about classes

2003-12-31 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
Dear Herbert, On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Herbert Voss wrote: > > We have discussed such a system earlier, and to put it bluntly, it is > > probably never going to happen. It is not impossible, but it is very hard > > to do. First it needs to construct the latex and lyx class files, which is > > no, it i

Re: Suggestion about classes

2003-12-31 Thread Herbert Voss
Ingar Pareliussen wrote: I think Lyx lacks classes in order to make different kinds of documents. It's very easy to make an article, a book or whaterver you want, but as soon as you want to make somthing else (eg : a thesis, ...), it's a little more complicated and if you are not a programer or a L

Re: Suggestion about classes

2003-12-31 Thread Ingar Pareliussen
> I think Lyx lacks classes in order to make different kinds of documents. > It's very easy to make an article, a book or whaterver you want, but as soon > as you want to make somthing else (eg : a thesis, ...), it's a little more > complicated and if you are not a programer or a Latex user, it's a

Re: Suggestion about classes

2003-12-31 Thread Janus Sandsgaard
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 00:36, Jade wrote: > Thanks for making such a nice program ! Yeah. Always great to hear from people, who find their way to LyX. This is the ultimate tool for doing academic reports etc. > I think Lyx lacks classes in order to make different kinds of documents. > It

Re: Suggestion about classes

2003-12-31 Thread Herbert Voss
Jade wrote: I think Lyx lacks classes in order to make different kinds of documents. It's very easy to make an article, a book or whaterver you want, but as soon as you want to make somthing else (eg : a thesis, ...), it's a little more complicated and if you are not a programer or a Latex user

Re: Suggestion/wish for Lyx

2002-08-30 Thread Praedor Tempus
I often use math mode symbols in normal text. I have to write bio papers in which I use microliters (ul) and so forth. I simply insert the Greek/math symbol for micro in the text to make the correct text output shorthand for microliter. It wouldn't matter if a whole list of symbols used a ma

Re: Suggestion/wish for Lyx

2002-08-30 Thread robin
Praedor Tempus wrote: >I've found several occassions when I needed particular graphic symbols for use >in figure legends but the symbols I wanted/needed were in the bullets portion >of Layout -> Document. I had to find out what the latex commands for these >symbols were and then manually ente

Re: Suggestion: PDF and HTML for LyX

1999-06-11 Thread Andreas Arnez
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Florian Cramer wrote: > To do that properly, you would need at least two configuration popups for > customizing the export parameters (for PDF, that would mean to make all > hyperref switches available in LyX - quite a lot of work). Yes, but in the first stage I would be co

Re: Suggestion: PDF and HTML for LyX

1999-06-11 Thread Steffen Schmidt
Florian Cramer wrote: > Am Fri, 11.Jun.1999 um 09:23:22 +0200 schrieb Andreas Arnez: > > > "export as HTML". My feeling is that it should be easy to implement the > > appropriate front-ends. Of course, the programs can be invoked by hand, > > but it would ease LyX's use and definitely look we

Re: Suggestion: PDF and HTML for LyX

1999-06-11 Thread Florian Cramer
Am Fri, 11.Jun.1999 um 09:23:22 +0200 schrieb Andreas Arnez: > "export as HTML". My feeling is that it should be easy to implement the > appropriate front-ends. Of course, the programs can be invoked by hand, > but it would ease LyX's use and definitely look well on LyX's > feature-list -- with

Re: Suggestion/Question: counting words

1999-03-22 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Mark" == Mark van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> I wonder if it is possible to counter the number of words in Mark> lyx. Mark> One can use something like 'dvi2tty dvifile |wc' or 'ps2ascii Mark> psfile |wc' But often one wants to count words in a certain Mark> section only. You