Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > I updated from 1.3.x to 1.4.1. > > 1) My document has many "Comments". > > Now I see these are all closed. How can I have all the "comments" opened > so I can read them easily without clicking through them one at a time?
M-x all-insets-toggle open comment > 2) When I click on one comment box and then scroll away and then click on > another comment box, then it jumps me back to the previous comment I was > looking at. My work-around is to click on some regular text content around > it first. This is inconvenient. This is strange (and looks like a bug). > Same problem with "Note". > > 3) Same as with lyx 1.3.x when I export to plain text, my comments are in > the text file. I don't want this. When exporting to DVI, PS, PDF my > comments are not included (like I expect). > > But now I see that printing to plain text, a "Note" is not included. > > 4) Should I be using Notes instead of comments? Yes (although comments should probably not be exported to plaintext anyway, it has been like this also in 1.3). > 5) I don't see "Comment" in my drop-down list of paragraph environments > anymore. I used it to comment out text that I want to hide in my books > (and why I thought it should not be exported in plain text output -- but > maybe I misunderstood this). Comment is not in the drop-down list anymore, because it is now a proper inset, not a paragraph style. (Think of commenting out whole paragraphs, including sections, quotations, lists etc.; that was not possible with the old comment feature). HTH, Jürgen > Jeremy C. Reed > > p.s. If you are a pkgsrc or NetBSD or DragonFly user, I will be updating > the package for this soon. My package includes a patch to stop the core > dump at exit time. I don't know why my patch for this has never been > considered yet. It also core dumps on exit in DragonFly operating system > too.
