On 2011-10-24, Christopher Menzel wrote: > [-- Type: text/plain, Encoding: quoted-printable --]
> On Oct 24, 2011, at 4:04 PM, David L. Johnson wrote: >> On 10/24/2011 09:43 AM, Christopher Menzel wrote: >>> On Oct 24, 2011, at 2:37 PM, François-Xavier Thomas wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> I currently write a lot of mathematical documents in TeXmacs, mainly >>>> because the way you can type formulas is very intuitive. >>>> Two basic examples for those who don't know about it : >>>> * Begin a formula : Only the $ sign, no Ctrl/Meta/Alt keys >>> LyX has very powerful and flexible shortcut capabilities. The default >>> for getting into math mode is "Opt-m m" but you can add a shortcut >>> that will enable $ to do the same. >> Which will work fine so long as you never need to use the dollar sign >> as a dollar sign. Which can be bound to any other key or accessed via m-x self-insert or Insert>Symbols. Outside the US, the literal dollar sign is rather seldom used. >> There is no reason not to tie such a command to a simple keystroke >> that is not a character. > Unless, of course, it's what you're used to and what you want. That > could be a pretty great reason for someone and it's very cool that LyX > is so flexible that it allows it. There is another reason: touch typing without moving hands is not possible for F1...F12 and rather hard for CTRL on most keyboards. >> I use F10, so no key-chord. > A fine choice. :-) >> Ctrl keys and the like are not really inherently evil; you can use >> them and they don't get confused with their other uses. This very much depends on the other uses. But I agree that the $ -> math-insert binding should not be made default. Günter
