Hi, there's a compromise solution: "screen-recenter" - it is not an automatic action but it can be bound to a shortcut key, and it scrolls the document so you can type in the center of the screen. Depending on your keyboard bindings, there may already be a shortcut for it. You can find it by going to Prefs > Editing > Shortcuts and searching for screen-recenter. If it doesn't exist, you can create one with a key combination that is convenient to you. I use Control-L following emacs conventions, and use it frequently. It's a matter of taste, but I think it's nice to have the choice whether to recenter or not.
Hope this helps, Jens On Apr 29, 2011, at 8:16 AM, jelle feringa wrote: > > > > Hi Jim, > > In LyX 2.0 you can scroll past the end of the document, which means you can at > least maintain the cursor in the middle of the screen by scrolling manually. > To > enable it look under Editing > Control in preferences. > > Yep, that helps a bit... > > As for what you're actually requesting, I would find it very disconcerting if > I > pressed enter or got to the end of a line and the cursor stayed still, but the > document moved up underneath. > > My explanation was a inept; think of a mechanical typewriter, the line you > type is fixed, while the page is moving back & forth... that's the idea ;) > This video provides a better explanation: > http://www.literatureandlatte.com/videos/FullScreenBackdrop.mov > > Cheers! > > -jelle >
