On 03/23/2012 11:02 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote:
Richard Heck wrote:
On 03/23/2012 04:22 AM, Pavel Sanda wrote:
Bert Lloyd wrote:
Hi LyXers,
I am finding the Branches function to be incredibly useful for adding
notes and questions to shared documents. I would like to know if there
is a way to have specific formats applied to certain branches when
exporting to PDF. In particular, I would like to have the text
highlighted, but it would also be useful if the text appeared in a
special color, emphasized, boldface, etc.
This is not currently possible. I would need something similar, but
its not clear to me what is the right way. It would be possible, for
example, to define specific TeX snippet for a given branch, which is
put just before and after each branch inset. It looks somewhat hackish
and perhaps not usable for normal users. (?)
One idea would be to allow every Flex inset to be a branch inset, in the
sense that it would appear in the branch menu and could be turned on and off.
E.g.:
InsetLayout Footnote
Branch 1
End
would mean: Allow footnotes to be turned on and off. Of course, one could
then have customized insets of this type, too.
This would be easy to do.
I was bit afraid to open Pandora's box, since it opens questions about
reorganizing the insets. What is the purpose of e.g. Note inset when we
have mechanism how to switch off any Foot/GreyedNote/Comment...
People often ask for the ability to export notes, in fact. Whether one
needs some many different types is another question. And JMarc has
previously argued that GreyedNote is a box.
But right, having option to disable any flex inset like a given text style
looks better than ERT-like magic around branch insets.
Is there any reason to forbid specific insets to be "branchable" (and thus
introducing "Branch 1" construct)?
Just to simplify UI, really. You'd have a very long list of "branches"
if every type of inset were included.
Richard
