Dear LyX-Developers, As I did not get a reaction from developers so far but support from a user, I'll send my "note-inset proposal" to the devel-list. (Or should I have filed it somewhere on a whish list?) (Could you mail me directly, or the users list, if there is some comment/reaction?) On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:02:39 -0400 wrote Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yes!!! This is something which I would love to have for a long > time. Together with importing comments in LaTeX file into LyX as > notes. > > Matej > > On 9 Jul 2001, at 13:56, Guenter Milde wrote: > > > On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:54:16 -0300 wrote Ralph Boland > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Of interest, I also have to send versions of my papers to > > > my supervisor or to co-authors. > > > > > > It would be very useful to be able to insert comments in the > > > middle of a paragraph. e.g. (break sentence in two) > > > (give reference) > > > > > > I guess margin comments are supposed to provide this > > > facility. However I would like: > > > 1) The comment marker to be more visible. > > > Like the bright yellow and large box of the Note > > > marker. > > > 2) The ability to have the comment appear in > > > the text rather than have to open up the marker > > > (like math equations). > > > This ability needs to controllable on an individual > > > comment basis and on a global basis. > > > 3) The ability to "go to prev/next comment". Thus if > > > someone > > > has marked up my paper with comments I would like to be > > > able to go through them one at a time. I would want to > > > be able to program a key to do this. > > > 4) I personally wouldn't want them printed as happens with > > > margin comments. Personal tastes may vary here. > > > I suppose this could be controllable too. > > > 5) Note that a Note comment cannot be used here because > > > it doesn't allow math equations etc. to be placed in > > > them. > > > > Note, that almost all would be solved, if a Note would allow math > > etc. (I darkly remember, that there was something like > > "open/close all" for floats + the ability to toggle this by > > clicking) ... > > > > So my suggestion would be to make the note box more like a > > footnote box: i.e. it should not open a separate window but an > > inset (like floats, errors, ert-inset, and footnotes) and should > > (as a footnote or a comment) allow all the lyx-stuff like math, > > figures ... > > > > The difference to the "Comment" paragraph style would be like the > > one between LaTeX paragraph and ERT-inset (+ the "Go To Note" > > menu entry in the Navigate menu). > > > > Normal keybindings would work (xforms and KDE don't work well > > together, therefore my <Del> key does <BS> in all popup-windows, > > which sometimes is anoying. > > > > LaTeX export should also export notes (as comments, may be with a > > leading "%Note:") (Then also optional printing is possible with > > the right package ...) > > > > What do other people think of this? Would this be much work or > > could some > > existing code be reused? Should I have posted to devel? > > > > Guenter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
