On Monday 22 November 2010 15:03:38 Tim Wescott wrote: > Ah, perfect. That turns it into the 'table note' that I'm used to > seeing, and could never coerce OpenOffice or Word into doing correctly > (at least not without standing on my head). > > I could whine and say that should happen automagically, but I won't, > because this is very fine.
:-) I know how you feel Tim. When I began LyXing in 2001, LyX had no character styles. I learned this the hard way after I had finished outlining and was well into writing "Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist". This would have been a showstopper -- I would have had to drop LyX. As is my tradition, I griped on the list. Most list members told me just to use emph or noun or maybe a little ERT, which of course would go against my whole styles-based philosophy. I was ready to dump LyX and go back to MS Word when a list member named Dekl Tsur showed me a way that I could use colored text to represent a character style. So instead of having names, my character styles had colors. Here is his method: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/self_publish_lyx.htm#SimulatingCharacterStylesWithColorPseudostyles I happily used Dekl's pseudo-character-styles from late 2001 until March 2006, when version 1.4.0 came out with true character styles (see http://www.lyx.org/announce/1_4_0.txt). I was ecstatic when 1.4.0 came out with true character styles and have used them ever since. So when you say "I could whine and say that should happen automagically, but I won't, because this is very fine", I know EXACTLY what you mean. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt
