On Wednesday 11 November 2009 09:36:07 Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Sam Liddicott schrieb: > > In the attached lyx file, phantom at the beginning of a line results in > > a new-line. > > This is by design. To change this, you can either add a zero space (width > of 0pt) before the phantom or you force a line break before the phantom, > see attached. > > > I'm also thinking what about a phantom text style (as text styles can be > > nested) but this might need whatever magic is required to get phantom to > > work at the start of a line. > > A phantom is no real style and therefore not implemented as character > style. For the next major LyX release LyX 1.7 it is possible to insert > phantoms via the Insert menu, see > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20#commands
Uwe and Sam, What are some of the situations in which you might want to use phantoms. The whole concept sounds so Geeky I want to use them, but can't figure out a situation that calls for them. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
