Re: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2012-05-10, Scott Kostyshak wrote: From: Paul A. Rubin [ru...@msu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 8:10 PM My preferred workaround used to be to select the entire equation and use ctrl-M to convert it back to plain text, dink around with that, then ctrl-M again to make it a formula once

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-10 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Guenter Milde milde at users.sf.net writes: It would be nice, if a math inset would behave like a float, minipage or branch: if you go to the first position inside the inset and press backspace, the inset is dissolved and the content inlined. This would give a consistent user experience.

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-10 Thread Alex Vergara Gil
El 10/05/2012 09:02 a.m., Paul A. Rubin escribió: Guenter Mildemildeat users.sf.net writes: It would be nice, if a math inset would behave like a float, minipage or branch: if you go to the first position inside the inset and press backspace, the inset is dissolved and the content inlined.

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2012-05-10, Scott Kostyshak wrote: From: Paul A. Rubin [ru...@msu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 8:10 PM My preferred workaround used to be to select the entire equation and use ctrl-M to convert it back to plain text, dink around with that, then ctrl-M again to make it a formula once

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-10 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Guenter Milde milde at users.sf.net writes: It would be nice, if a math inset would behave like a float, minipage or branch: if you go to the first position inside the inset and press backspace, the inset is dissolved and the content inlined. This would give a consistent user experience.

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-10 Thread Alex Vergara Gil
El 10/05/2012 09:02 a.m., Paul A. Rubin escribió: Guenter Mildemildeat users.sf.net writes: It would be nice, if a math inset would behave like a float, minipage or branch: if you go to the first position inside the inset and press backspace, the inset is dissolved and the content inlined.

Re: Embedding arrows & stuff

2012-05-10 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2012-05-10, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > From: Paul A. Rubin [ru...@msu.edu] > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 8:10 PM >>My preferred workaround used to be to select the entire equation and >>use ctrl-M to convert it back to plain text, dink around with that, >>then ctrl-M again to make it a

Re: Embedding arrows & stuff

2012-05-10 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Guenter Milde users.sf.net> writes: > It would be nice, if a math inset would behave like a float, minipage or > branch: if you go to the first position inside the inset and press > backspace, the inset is dissolved and the content inlined. This would > give a consistent user experience. I'll

Re: Embedding arrows & stuff

2012-05-10 Thread Alex Vergara Gil
El 10/05/2012 09:02 a.m., Paul A. Rubin escribió: Guenter Milde writes: It would be nice, if a math inset would behave like a float, minipage or branch: if you go to the first position inside the inset and press backspace, the inset is dissolved and the content inlined.

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2012-05-08, Tim Wescott wrote: I'm thinking that I should probably just write an equation, print the file to eps (if I can figure out how), edit it with Inkscape, then put that figure into the text. There was a thread about LyX as equation editor here on the list some time ago. The idea is

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-09 Thread Tim Wescott
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 22:25 +, Paul A.Rubin wrote: Tim Wescott tim at wescottdesign.com writes: I want to generate a page with Beamer that looks like the enclosed pdf. Any suggestions on how to achieve the arrows pointing to parts of an equation effect? I'm thinking that I

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-09 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Tim Wescott tim at wescottdesign.com writes: That looks cool -- but it runs off the right side of my screen and Lyx won't let me scroll over there. Suggestions? This is a major PITA. Horizontal scrollbars have been suggested, and I suspect there's a (long) open ticket for it. My

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-09 Thread William Seager
On Thursday 10 May 2012 00:10:33 Paul A. Rubin wrote: This is a major PITA. ++ on that -- William Seager University of Toronto Scarborough www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager

RE: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-09 Thread Scott Kostyshak
From: Paul A. Rubin [ru...@msu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 8:10 PM This is a major PITA. Horizontal scrollbars have been suggested, and I suspect there's a (long) open ticket for it. Yes, here: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1083 My preferred workaround used to be to select the entire

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2012-05-08, Tim Wescott wrote: I'm thinking that I should probably just write an equation, print the file to eps (if I can figure out how), edit it with Inkscape, then put that figure into the text. There was a thread about LyX as equation editor here on the list some time ago. The idea is

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-09 Thread Tim Wescott
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 22:25 +, Paul A.Rubin wrote: Tim Wescott tim at wescottdesign.com writes: I want to generate a page with Beamer that looks like the enclosed pdf. Any suggestions on how to achieve the arrows pointing to parts of an equation effect? I'm thinking that I

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-09 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Tim Wescott tim at wescottdesign.com writes: That looks cool -- but it runs off the right side of my screen and Lyx won't let me scroll over there. Suggestions? This is a major PITA. Horizontal scrollbars have been suggested, and I suspect there's a (long) open ticket for it. My

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-09 Thread William Seager
On Thursday 10 May 2012 00:10:33 Paul A. Rubin wrote: This is a major PITA. ++ on that -- William Seager University of Toronto Scarborough www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager

RE: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-09 Thread Scott Kostyshak
From: Paul A. Rubin [ru...@msu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 8:10 PM This is a major PITA. Horizontal scrollbars have been suggested, and I suspect there's a (long) open ticket for it. Yes, here: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1083 My preferred workaround used to be to select the entire

Re: Embedding arrows & stuff

2012-05-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2012-05-08, Tim Wescott wrote: > I'm thinking that I should probably just write an equation, print the > file to eps (if I can figure out how), edit it with Inkscape, then put > that figure into the text. There was a thread about "LyX as equation editor" here on the list some time ago. The

Re: Embedding arrows & stuff

2012-05-09 Thread Tim Wescott
On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 22:25 +, Paul A.Rubin wrote: > Tim Wescott wescottdesign.com> writes: > > > > > I want to generate a page with Beamer that looks like the enclosed > pdf. > > Any suggestions on how to achieve the "arrows pointing to parts of > an > > equation" effect? > > > > I'm

Re: Embedding arrows & stuff

2012-05-09 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Tim Wescott wescottdesign.com> writes: > That looks cool -- but it runs off the right side of my screen and Lyx > won't let me scroll over there. > > Suggestions? This is a major PITA. Horizontal scrollbars have been suggested, and I suspect there's a (long) open ticket for it. My preferred

Re: Embedding arrows & stuff

2012-05-09 Thread William Seager
On Thursday 10 May 2012 00:10:33 Paul A. Rubin wrote: > This is a major PITA. ++ on that -- William Seager University of Toronto Scarborough www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager

RE: Embedding arrows & stuff

2012-05-09 Thread Scott Kostyshak
From: Paul A. Rubin [ru...@msu.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 8:10 PM >This is a major PITA. Horizontal scrollbars have been suggested, and I suspect >there's a (long) open ticket for it. Yes, here: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/1083 >My preferred workaround used to be to select the

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-08 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Tim Wescott tim at wescottdesign.com writes: I want to generate a page with Beamer that looks like the enclosed pdf. Any suggestions on how to achieve the arrows pointing to parts of an equation effect? I'm thinking that I should probably just write an equation, print the file to eps (if

Re: Embedding arrows stuff

2012-05-08 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Tim Wescott tim at wescottdesign.com writes: I want to generate a page with Beamer that looks like the enclosed pdf. Any suggestions on how to achieve the arrows pointing to parts of an equation effect? I'm thinking that I should probably just write an equation, print the file to eps (if

Re: Embedding arrows & stuff

2012-05-08 Thread Paul A . Rubin
Tim Wescott wescottdesign.com> writes: > > I want to generate a page with Beamer that looks like the enclosed pdf. > Any suggestions on how to achieve the "arrows pointing to parts of an > equation" effect? > > I'm thinking that I should probably just write an equation, print the > file to eps