Hi, Just a quick note to say that I really like the idea. It'd make LyX a great tool for jotting ideas (notetaking). I'm already using it in this way. Btw word 2010 has similar improvements on the outliner sidebar, taken from oneNote (oneNote is a great piece of software, the only thing I miss since moving to linux, plenty of good design ideas there).
Thanks, -Jose On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > So I svn'ed LyX 2, built it, and ran it. So far so good except outlines. I > ran > it against one of my existing books and its associated layout file and > seealso.inc, and it worked. > > One fascinating thing is for the first time in my history with LyX, I got > it > to recognize a layout file first crack out of the box. All I had to do was > put > the correctly named .layout in the same directory as the document, and > bang, > it worked. I know 1.6.x was *advertised* to work that way, but it didn't. > Later I'll do some experiments to see if 2.0.x really works that way every > time, or whether I just got lucky the first time with 2.0.x. In the past > I've > found layout recognition to be a hit or miss intermittent. > > In August I put in a request for a couple improvements to LyX outline mode > that would stratospherically launch productivity. See it here: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-de...@lists.lyx.org/msg154181.html > > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6174 > > The enhancement described, or even something close, would enable authors to > construct from scratch outlines within LyX, enhancing the organization and > value of their documents. It would also limit mistakes as the author flips > between outline view and document view. I see right now it's owned by > "nobody", and it would be wonderful if it could be addressed. If the > enhancement as I described it is too difficult to code in time for release, > I > can work with the developer to simplify the enhancement while still > retaining > its value. > > Anyway, my next step will be to observe and document how all the features > added since 1.5.x work. 1.6.x had a lot of different inserts. 1.6 has > layout > modules, which I haven't explored yet. I hear 2.0 allows you to shut off > spellcheck in certain styles, which probably means there's LOTS of > customization that can be done at the style level. > > Anyway, thanks for the great software. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Recession Relief Package > http://www.recession-relief.US > Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt > > -- Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin http://www.josequesada.name/ http://twitter.com/Quesada
