notes/comments proposal
Dear LyX-Developers, As I did not get a reaction from developers so far but support from a user, I'll send my note-inset proposal to the devel-list. (Or should I have filed it somewhere on a whish list?) (Could you mail me directly, or the users list, if there is some comment/reaction?) On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:02:39 -0400 wrote Matej Cepl [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Yes!!! This is something which I would love to have for a long time. Together with importing comments in LaTeX file into LyX as notes. Matej On 9 Jul 2001, at 13:56, Guenter Milde wrote: On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:54:16 -0300 wrote Ralph Boland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Of interest, I also have to send versions of my papers to my supervisor or to co-authors. It would be very useful to be able to insert comments in the middle of a paragraph. e.g. (break sentence in two) (give reference) I guess margin comments are supposed to provide this facility. However I would like: 1) The comment marker to be more visible. Like the bright yellow and large box of the Note marker. 2) The ability to have the comment appear in the text rather than have to open up the marker (like math equations). This ability needs to controllable on an individual comment basis and on a global basis. 3) The ability to go to prev/next comment. Thus if someone has marked up my paper with comments I would like to be able to go through them one at a time. I would want to be able to program a key to do this. 4) I personally wouldn't want them printed as happens with margin comments. Personal tastes may vary here. I suppose this could be controllable too. 5) Note that a Note comment cannot be used here because it doesn't allow math equations etc. to be placed in them. Note, that almost all would be solved, if a Note would allow math etc. (I darkly remember, that there was something like open/close all for floats + the ability to toggle this by clicking) ... So my suggestion would be to make the note box more like a footnote box: i.e. it should not open a separate window but an inset (like floats, errors, ert-inset, and footnotes) and should (as a footnote or a comment) allow all the lyx-stuff like math, figures ... The difference to the Comment paragraph style would be like the one between LaTeX paragraph and ERT-inset (+ the Go To Note menu entry in the Navigate menu). Normal keybindings would work (xforms and KDE don't work well together, therefore my Del key does BS in all popup-windows, which sometimes is anoying. LaTeX export should also export notes (as comments, may be with a leading %Note:) (Then also optional printing is possible with the right package ...) What do other people think of this? Would this be much work or could some existing code be reused? Should I have posted to devel? Guenter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
notes/comments proposal
Dear LyX-Developers, As I did not get a reaction from developers so far but support from a user, I'll send my "note-inset proposal" to the devel-list. (Or should I have filed it somewhere on a whish list?) (Could you mail me directly, or the users list, if there is some comment/reaction?) On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:02:39 -0400 wrote Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes!!! This is something which I would love to have for a long > time. Together with importing comments in LaTeX file into LyX as > notes. > > Matej > > On 9 Jul 2001, at 13:56, Guenter Milde wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:54:16 -0300 wrote Ralph Boland > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Of interest, I also have to send versions of my papers to > > > my supervisor or to co-authors. > > > > > > It would be very useful to be able to insert comments in the > > > middle of a paragraph. e.g. (break sentence in two) > > >(give reference) > > > > > > I guess margin comments are supposed to provide this > > > facility. However I would like: > > > 1) The comment marker to be more visible. > > > Like the bright yellow and large box of the Note > > > marker. > > > 2) The ability to have the comment appear in > > > the text rather than have to open up the marker > > > (like math equations). > > > This ability needs to controllable on an individual > > > comment basis and on a global basis. > > > 3) The ability to "go to prev/next comment". Thus if > > > someone > > > has marked up my paper with comments I would like to be > > > able to go through them one at a time. I would want to > > > be able to program a key to do this. > > > 4) I personally wouldn't want them printed as happens with > > > margin comments. Personal tastes may vary here. > > > I suppose this could be controllable too. > > >5) Note that a Note comment cannot be used here because > > > it doesn't allow math equations etc. to be placed in > > > them. > > > > Note, that almost all would be solved, if a Note would allow math > > etc. (I darkly remember, that there was something like > > "open/close all" for floats + the ability to toggle this by > > clicking) ... > > > > So my suggestion would be to make the note box more like a > > footnote box: i.e. it should not open a separate window but an > > inset (like floats, errors, ert-inset, and footnotes) and should > > (as a footnote or a comment) allow all the lyx-stuff like math, > > figures ... > > > > The difference to the "Comment" paragraph style would be like the > > one between LaTeX paragraph and ERT-inset (+ the "Go To Note" > > menu entry in the Navigate menu). > > > > Normal keybindings would work (xforms and KDE don't work well > > together, therefore my key does in all popup-windows, > > which sometimes is anoying. > > > > LaTeX export should also export notes (as comments, may be with a > > leading "%Note:") (Then also optional printing is possible with > > the right package ...) > > > > What do other people think of this? Would this be much work or > > could some > > existing code be reused? Should I have posted to devel? > > > > Guenter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
