Cyrille Artho wrote: > I now understand better what you meant. If we get accepted for this > year's GSoC, I hope you have time to make a screenshot (or at least we > can mark up the ASCII art with the right tags so the browser will not > screw it up. My e-mail reader did.)
Note that I just recorded this long-time request. I feel not responsible for this particular task (and cannot mentor it). > I personally think that LyX handles ERT (TeX) insets and footnotes > pretty well. Short ERT is just like a long word in text, and I > personally don't mind long insets starting on a new line as I would > write corresponding LaTeX code in the same style. > > But there are probably cases where the user experience can be improved. I think this is in fact one of the biggest usability flaws in LyX, not just "some cosmetic problem", but a pretty serious UI design problem of LyX. For a long time, we wanted to add character styles, but this is simply not user-friendly enough as long as insets do not fit into the flow of the main text. Have a look at the attached screenshot. It uses the "logical markup" module which is the first attempt to provide proper character styles. Since character styles are one of the main features of LaTeX, the unability to properly represent them (at least when we want to use insets) is a siginifcant problem. Regards, Jürgen
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