Hi all, I've been using lyx for about one and a half year now and I'm quite happy with it. Especially since I've changed to CJK-LyX and now am able to use Japanese and German in the same text with the cjk-latex package (although because of missing unicode support it is still not as convenient as it could be. By the way, is there still a project to include CJK-support into normal lyx?).
Here some small observations, suggestions and/or questions coming from my personal every day experience: 1) I need ERT quite frequently. It would be cool to have a special box for latex code. I mean a box like the one for footnotes, which supports cut and paste and everything like normal text. Every text in this box should be automatically understood as red text, and if you close the box, your screen is clean (except of a small label). Of course that has nothing to do with functionality, it's just a way to hide ERT. 2) Find and Replace should be improved. It is very slow and it's fuctionality should be enhanced, in order to use special codes and ERT too. For example if I want to replace "z. B." by "z.\,B." (\, in red) it should be possible to do this with Find and Replace. I understand that you developer guys, who know the lyx file structure and also sed or perl very well don't need that. But for the normal user it would be a great improvement. I didn't manage to replace "z. B." with sed, because in the lyx file this expression is divided into two separate lines and I didn't find out how to use sed for such expressions. 3) Is there a way to start scripts which do changes on the lyx file from within lyx? Or is it always necessary to do it outside? I found something like that on Herberts homepage under "Czech Typographie", but I didn't understand it. 4) If I close a box with Ctr-i the cursor should be placed behind the box. 5) Version Control is a great feature. It should be improved by 2 very common tasks: to check out a special version number, and to check in with a new version number (lets say 2.1 instad of 1.44). Of course you can do that outside, but you have to be very careful not to mess up everything. That's enough for the moment. Thank you for your work and thanks in advance for any comment. Gerhard Schuck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
