On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:54:16 -0300 wrote Ralph Boland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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.
Note, that almost all would be solved, if a Note would allow math etc. (I
darkly remember, that there was something like "open/close all" for floats +
the ability to toggle this by clicking) ...
So my suggestion would be to make the note box more like a footnote box:
i.e. it should not open a separate window but an inset (like floats, errors,
ert-inset, and footnotes) and should (as a footnote or a comment) allow all the
lyx-stuff like math, figures ...
The difference to the "Comment" paragraph style would be like the one between
LaTeX paragraph and ERT-inset (+ the "Go To Note" menu entry in the
Navigate menu).
Normal keybindings would work (xforms and KDE don't work well together,
therefore my <Del> key does <BS> in all popup-windows, which sometimes is
anoying.
LaTeX export should also export notes (as comments, may be with a leading
"%Note:") (Then also optional printing is possible with the right package ...)
What do other people think of this? Would this be much work or could some
existing code be reused? Should I have posted to devel?
Guenter
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