On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:15:02AM +0200, seguso wrote: > hello everybody, > > I happended to raise this problem in comp.text.tex, and > someone asked me (hastily) to post about it in this mailing > list, so please don't eat me. :-)
Fine. Now it's time to introduce you to bugzilla.lyx.org which is a very convenient way to make sure your proposal does not get lost. > I know this is a secondary feature, because it is not about > functionality but about ease of use. Anyway... > > 1. I believe that the Lyx math-panel should have tooltips. Good idea actually. Maybe Martin has some time to look into it? > More precisely, when you position the mouse pointer above > some button, a "tooltip" should appear (possibly on the > status bar, in case it is easier to program) showing the > Latex escape sequences needed to write the same symbol by > hand. Note that in current 1.3.0cvs in some cases you get a hint in the minibuffer after you inserted a symbol. > Let us admit it, not many users (surely not in > the windows world :-P) are willing to read manuals before > using a program. I believe a complete program should "teach > itself" to the user. Indeed. And reading books is a fairly common way to teach yourself something. I'd rather see the resources spend to implement dancing paper-clips going to decent documentation. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
