Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-21 Thread Amir Seginer
Hello, This might be difficult to implement, or simply undesired, but how about detachable groups like in the symbols in the math-panel (in 1.3.0-Qt this seems very convenient). I could then detach a "sections" panel with, say, chapter, section, subsection,... and another, say, "mathematical"

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-21 Thread Amir Seginer
Hello, This might be difficult to implement, or simply undesired, but how about detachable groups like in the symbols in the math-panel (in 1.3.0-Qt this seems very convenient). I could then detach a "sections" panel with, say, chapter, section, subsection,... and another, say, "mathematical"

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Ralph" == Ralph P Boland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ralph> Note that in order to do this to the amsart.layout file I had Ralph> to put a copy of it in my .lyx/layouts directory and modify it. Ralph> This is certainly clumsy and risky in that subsequent versions Ralph> of lyx might modify

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Owen Lucas
Although it probably goes against the LyX GUI feel I think that once you know what you want, using the keyboard is a much faster and convenient way to select the style. Paul Medwell wrote: You can manually change the ordering of the styles by using something like the following in your .layout

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Ralph P. Boland
Paul Medwell wrote: You can manually change the ordering of the styles by using something like the following in your .layout file. --- #Sort the order of the styles Style Standard End Style Chapter End Style Section End Style Subsection End Style Subsubsection End Style Paragraph End Style Li

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Bo Peng
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 06:13:30PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > The ordering is the order in which layouts are read from layout file. > So there is already some order and structure (see the files > stdsections.inc, stdstruct.inc, etc.). Yes. I did notice some order but I still had a hard t

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Bo" == Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Or maybe what it considers as 'too long' is not the same as for >> you. Bo> Article/AMS has around 70 layouts which is 'too long' to me. :-) I was referring to the Navigate menu about which andre was complaining. Bo> I would propose a combin

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:07:18AM -0600, Bo Peng wrote: > BTW, I have 'grep'ed lyx-devel/src but could not find relevant parts > about the layout file and drop list. Could anyone tell me where I should > look into? lib/layout and cut&paste... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Bo Peng
> >> Another idea that I had (but I am not sure it would be better, and > >> it requires some extra work) was to put the list of layouts in a > >> structured menu (with toplevel entries like Sections, Lists...). > Andre> It would be sufficient to have a separator. Great idea. > Or maybe what it

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Andre" == Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Andre> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:15:53AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes Andre> wrote: >> Another idea that I had (but I am not sure it would be better, and >> it requires some extra work) was to put the list of layouts in a >> structured men

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 09:15:53AM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Another idea that I had (but I am not sure it would be better, and it > requires some extra work) was to put the list of layouts in a > structured menu (with toplevel entries like Sections, Lists...). It would be sufficient to

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-20 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Bo" == Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bo> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:18:29PM +1030, Paul Medwell wrote: >> You can manually change the ordering of the styles by using >> something like the following in your .layout file. Bo> This might be a good solution to advanced users who want to

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-19 Thread Paul Medwell
Bo Peng wrote: BP> This might be a good solution to advanced users who want to (and know BP> how to) control everything. However, alphabetic ordering should be BP> easier to use for most of the users (who do not necessarily know where BP> the .layout files are). While I am honoured that you consid

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-19 Thread Bo Peng
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 01:18:29PM +1030, Paul Medwell wrote: > You can manually change the ordering of the styles by using something > like the following in your .layout file. This might be a good solution to advanced users who want to (and know how to) control everything. However, alphabetic o

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-19 Thread Paul Medwell
You can manually change the ordering of the styles by using something like the following in your .layout file. --- #Sort the order of the styles Style Standard End Style Chapter End Style Section End Style Subsection End Style Subsubsection End Style Paragraph End Style List End --- This

Re: alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-19 Thread Ralph P. Boland
Better still, I would like there to be a field in the .layout files where I can list the environments in the order I prefer them to be in. This would be particularly useful as different layouts sometimes have the same environments in different orders which can be confusing. Thanks Ralph Bolan

alphabetic order for style list?

2003-02-19 Thread Bo Peng
Dear List, Will it be better if the environment/style list is ordered alphabetically? I frequently have trouble in finding the environment I need especially when the list is long. Thanks. -- Bo Peng