On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 07:49:45AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > I've been using LyX for quite a while and beamer for even quite a while > longer, but my knowledge of LyX is fairly superficial. > > I frequently produce slides which incorporate a graph on the left with > bulleted text on the right. An example LaTeX code is below. I do need to > use ERT for the minipage. The reason for the minipage is to shrink the > text on the left. I cut/paste LaTeX here because pasting LyX doesn't seem > to include the ERT. > > Since this structure is a bit tedious to enter I usually prefer to > copy/paste the frame, changing the text and the figure but keeping the > structure. > > This copy/pasting is a bit more difficult than I would hope. Firstly, to > successfully copy/paste a beamer frame it is best to make sure there is a > frame separator. Position the cursor just at the end of this frame > separator before the frame you wish to copy, then select down to the end of > the frame. > > When pasting, it seems best to position cursor just after a frame > separator. If this is not done (frame separators not used) I frequently > wind up with a frame title outside of a frame, a situation that seems > difficult to recover from (although at least 1 time I did fix it by > positioning the cursor near the start of the frame title and selecting > "frame"). > > Assuming I've placed the cursor at the end of the graphic of the frame I'd > like to copy, the procedure to get frame separator inserted seems tedious. > 1. Hit enter. Now I'm in "columns" > 2. Hit dedent. Now I'm still in "columns" but outside the frame > 3. Change to "standard" . For some reason, this moves cursor back inside > frame > 4. Hit dedent again. Now finally I can hit enter to produce the frame > separator. > > Is there an easier way? > > Thanks, > Neal
For your specific question, does this thread help you out? https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg104013.html Basically, if you figure out a command sequence that does what you want then you can bind it to a shortcut. I know this isn't out-of-the-box user-friendly, but perhaps it helps your use case. More generally, I've also found similar workflows to be unexpectedly complicated. I think that LyX's beamer workflow needs some improvements. Thankfully, LyX's beamer support was hugely improved several years ago. Before then, from what I understand it was a bunch of Beamer-specific hacks cobbled together; now it is just a well-defined special case of a document class. So I think the hard work is done, and all the required functionality is there, we just need to improve the interface/workflow. I have some ideas, based on sporadic discussions on the list. But I have no time to work on the code, and I do not want to start long conversations unless there is a volunteer willing to work on the code. Anyone who would be interested in working on the code, let me know and I will put the time into organizing my thoughts. In the meantime, I think it would be helpful to collect several use cases that are unexpected complicated, like the one that you bring up. Scott
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