Herbert Voss wrote: > Olivier Tubach wrote: > > > > is it possible to have in a lyx document : > > > > some english text > > the french translation > > > > other chapter > > > > some english text > > the french translation > > > > and export only the english version (or the french version) ? > > have a look at > > http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/IfThen/ifthen.html#ifthen > > it's a similiar situation > > Herbert > > -- > http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/ It is great that latex has support for this capability. However I consider this capability sufficiently useful that it would be good if lyx were to support it in a nice GUI kind of way. In my case I have to deal with proceeding and electronic versions of papers or paper vs chapters of my thesis etc. Rather than have multiple copies of these documents and then have to update them all when I make a change I would like to store them all into one lyx document. Herbert's solution allows me to do this but requires that I use a lot of ERT (evil red text) and abandon much of the advantage of using lyx over latex. **************************************************************** Of interest, I also have to send versions of my papers to my supervisor or to co-authors. It would be very useful to be able to insert comments in the middle of a paragraph. e.g. (break sentence in two) (give reference) I guess margin comments are supposed to provide this facility. However I would like: 1) The comment marker to be more visible. Like the bright yellow and large box of the Note marker. 2) The ability to have the comment appear in the text rather than have to open up the marker (like math equations). This ability needs to controllable on an individual comment basis and on a global basis. 3) The ability to "go to prev/next comment". Thus if someone has marked up my paper with comments I would like to be able to go through them one at a time. I would want to be able to program a key to do this. 4) I personally wouldn't want them printed as happens with margin comments. Personal tastes may vary here. I suppose this could be controllable too. 5) Note that a Note comment cannot be used here because it doesn't allow math equations etc. to be placed in them. When I teach (my first) university course this fall I may get my students to do their assignments in lyx. Then I or my teaching assistants could place our comments directly into the assignment and send the marked versions back. It would also be a great tool if conferences/journals would accept lyx files and have referees return commented lyx files to the authors. Don't hold your breath on this one though. Sorry that I can't volunteer to actually implement any of these features. Thanks Ralph Boland
