----- Original Message ----
> From: Steve Litt <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Mon, 22 November, 2010 21:18:48
> Subject: Re: I just lost a footnote in a table
>
> On Monday 22 November 2010 15:03:38 Tim Wescott wrote:
>
(The following quotes are in reverse order to the original email, since that's
the order I want to reply in.)
> 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.
Wow, that is _so useful_! I really wish I knew about character styles when I
wrote my MSc project in LyX last year; there was a certain type of label that
I'd finger painted with underline, and at the last minute changed my mind and
switched them all to bold. This wouldn't have been so bad, except that I
needed
an ERT pre/postfix to get the maths in each label bold as well ("{\boldmath"
and
"}").
>
> 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
>s
>
That is a dirty, nasty hack... and I love it! Even this would have been good
enough for what I needed in my MSc project.
Oh well, thanks for sharing. I'm sure the character styles knowledge will
still
save me plenty of time in future!
Jim
