On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 09:33:34PM -0500, Richard Heck wrote: > On 12/08/2016 12:24 AM, Joel Kulesza wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Scott Kostyshak <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 02:32:00PM -0700, Joel Kulesza wrote: > > > Colleagues: > > > > > > Is there a way to adjust the Font of a Style in a .layout to > > display as > > > UPPERCASE in LyX? > > > > > > I cannot see a way to do this in Help -> Customization --- have I > > > overlooked something? > > > > > > I am trying to get LyX to match the appearance of an associated > > .cls file > > > which converts all \section{...} entries to uppercase in the > > document. > > > > The feature does not currently exist. I have come across the same > > issue > > in the past. I think that there are conceptual issues and it is not > > clear we want to implement it. See the ticket here: > > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9489 > > <http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/9489> > > If you can respond to the concern there then maybe it would be > > reconsidered. > > > > > > Thank you for confirming that the ability is absent and for pointing > > me to that ticket. Indeed, I understand the point raised that > > representing non-uppercase text as uppercase would be misleading. It > > would go against WYSIWYM. However, one might approach WYSIWYM from > > two directions: that of the user and that of the publisher. I believe > > the ticket to be written from the perspective of the user and his/her > > interaction with LyX (if they mean for uppercase, they should use/see it). > > Another option, which we do sometimes use, is to change the color, as a > signal that something is weird. We do this, for example, with 'resumed' > enumerations, where the numbering ends up being wrong. So, e.g., we > could make the captialized section heading blue. > > > To avoid the "loss of information" cited in the ticket, I would > > propose converting the case to uppercase as the section heading is > > typed so that any subsequent copy/paste would be uppercase. > > Possible but would involve complicated hard-coding of this conversion, > and it would be very different from what else we do.
Joel, I would suggest you put the relevant information discussed in this email thread on the ticket (#9489). This way we will have a centralized place to discuss the topic. Scott
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