On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Uwe Stöhr <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 28.02.2012 21:03, schrieb Pascal Fischer: > > >> Of course I've meant to change the orientation for all headlines of a >> certain level. Not only for single ones. > > > But this is also possible. You can decide if the section, part or chapter > title will appear. > > >> PS: Sorry, if it seemed I was flooding the list. But yes, I've read >> the introduction, the tutorial and the user-guide. But I was so >> excited of the software, that I wanted to share some ideas to discuss, >> that maybe could make LyX even better. > > > I have to excuse. I didn't want to interrupt your enthusiasm. It only seemed > to me that you are new to LyX and expect it to work like a word processor > like Word. >
No, I really love the concept of LaTeX for years, but it seemed to difficult to me. And as I heared from LyX I thought "Yes, that's exactly the program you always wanted." And then for free... That's soooo good. But there are some things I miss (without wanting to change the principal concept). And some of these things are also important for others in my opinion. Only these things I post here for a discussion. And if maybe some of these ideas will be took up and make LyX better, that would be great. I can't code or anything like that. But if I have a few ideas to make almost perfect LyX even better, that's my way to say thank you for this free-of-charge program I always wanted. > >> Esp. for beginners. Of course I >> posted some things (like cursor-width) that are possible already and I >> didn't knew. I'm sorry for that. > > > Not problem. For a list what you can set in the LyX preferences and/or > document settings, see the Appendices of the UserGuide. > > >> But I still think, that many of the >> other ideas are worth thinking about it. Because standard-settings >> like the orientation of headlines (or the position of page-numbers, >> see other thread) are so essential and commonly needed for many users, >> that they should be possible in the document-settings-GUI without >> writing LaTeX in preambles, modifying modules, and so on. For >> sophisticated things that's okay, but not for basics that many user >> need to do. > > > That you cannot easily change the position of e.g. the page number is by > design. These things are usually done by the document class. So for a book > they will be at the outer margins, for articles in the middle. So normally > you don't need to take care of such things, just choose a nice document > class (I recommend KOMA-script or memoir) and it will look fine in the > output. > For the header/footers, the module is our UI. It can not be done in the > document settings because this would interfere with the document class > settings. For example KOMA-script has its own support for headers/footers. > > However, the most important thing you should do is to concentrate on writing > your text. Try not to look frequently how it will look in the output. > Customize the output appearance when your text is finished. You then know > more about LyX and what customizations are really necessary for you. > Yes, to concentrate only on the text is great. And most of the layout is done great by LyX / LaTeX. But if your university say e.g. that page-numbers has to be in the corner obligatory, that you have to do that. And if that is only possible with writing LaTeX-code that is against of the LyX-idea. Because that is a basic feature and no sophisticated thing. But I'm sure, all of you who know much more about LyX / LaTeX than me, will find a way to implement that user-friendly and with perfect layout. That you think about my ideas is all I wanted. Pascal
