Re: first letter dropped in math.bind commands
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 02:01:09PM -0700, Matt Brennan wrote: So it seems that the first letter of the command is being ignored. Sort of. To be safe for the future you should use 'math-insert \root'. That's actually the proper syntax, it's just not checked very thoroughly at the moment. At least there is an obvious, but clumsy workaround for this problem. I can't get other commands in the bind file to work at all. For instance, \bind M-m g math-greek only causes M-m g to appear in the bottom command window, but subsequent characters are not in Greek. Any ideas? Yes. You'd need individual key bindings '\bind M-m g a math-insert \alpha'. But you do not have to do that as these bindings are already in stock math.bind. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: first letter dropped in math.bind commands
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:08:42AM +0200, Johan Ingvast wrote: \bind M-m g a math-insert \alpha \bind M-m g b math-insert \beta \bind M-m g c math-insert \chi I don't known why it is changed this way, Because now everybody can change the bindings to a way he likes as the nmapping c - \chi is no longer hardcoded in mathed. and as far as I've found the toggling is no longer possible. That feature was not too useful (to me at least and to some who responded to some kind of poll) and needed extra hacks, so I just removed it. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
tooltips: a suggestion for Lyx
hello everybody, I happended to raise this problem in comp.text.tex, and someone asked me (hastily) to post about it in this mailing list, so please don't eat me. :-) I know this is a secondary feature, because it is not about functionality but about ease of use. Anyway... 1. I believe that the Lyx math-panel should have tooltips. More precisely, when you position the mouse pointer above some button, a tooltip should appear (possibly on the status bar, in case it is easier to program) showing the Latex escape sequences needed to write the same symbol by hand. This way, it won't be needed to read Latex manuals anymore, in order to learn keyboard shortcuts. You'll pass from mouse clicking to keyboard without any effort and without study. IMO, this is a very important feature. If you know Mathtype 4 or 5 (it is an add-on for MS Word), you know what I mean. In other words: having a good manual is surely a good thing for Lyx; but having NO manuals at all would be even better, if you know what I mean. (I know by experience that many linux users hate this kind of reasoning, but I can't see why) 2. Another thing that I found lacking is: a wizard. For the same reason. Let us admit it, not many users (surely not in the windows world :-P) are willing to read manuals before using a program. I believe a complete program should teach itself to the user. This is not at all difficult to achieve. All we would need is a button what do you want to do?, always on the foreground and well visible. you must click this button whenever you don't know how to do something. As soon as you click it, a dialog box appears whith other buttons, and so on. You begin traversing a hierchical tree where you can locate the exact thing you want to do. For example, these hierarchical levels could be something like: - 1. What do you want to do? --- 1.1. Change something about the way Lyx works 1.2. Change something about the looks of your document look. 1.3. I want to know something. 1.3.1. I want to know something about fonts. ... --- 1.3.1.1. I want to know why my fonts look jagged. ... -- 1.2.1. Change something about how your document appears under Lyx. 1.2.2. Change something about how your document appears when printed. --- This would be an enormous amount of work, because it should totally cover anything you can do with the current menu, anything you can read on the manuals. And if the user asks for something which is out of Lyx's AIM (such as inserting a border or shading around a paragraphs), this wizard should tell the user lyx is not a typesetting program. Once again, I understand that these are minor features compared to functionality. Of course, who already knows Lyx would never use the wizard, but it is not intended for us. Let me know what you think, Maurizio
Re: tooltips: a suggestion for Lyx
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:15:02AM +0200, seguso wrote: 1. I believe that the Lyx math-panel should have tooltips. More precisely, when you position the mouse pointer above some button, a tooltip should appear (possibly on the status bar, in case it is easier to program) showing the Latex escape sequences needed to write the same symbol by hand. It's an excellent idea and will be there by default in the Qt frontend, when we do the math palette 1. What do you want to do? This would be an enormous amount of work, because it should Yep. In fact, so big, I can't imagine it happening any time soon. We have bigger usability fish to fry right now regards john -- Hungarian notation is the tactical nuclear weapon of source code obfuscation techniques. - Roedy Green
Re: tooltips: a suggestion for Lyx
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:15:02AM +0200, seguso wrote: hello everybody, I happended to raise this problem in comp.text.tex, and someone asked me (hastily) to post about it in this mailing list, so please don't eat me. :-) Fine. Now it's time to introduce you to bugzilla.lyx.org which is a very convenient way to make sure your proposal does not get lost. I know this is a secondary feature, because it is not about functionality but about ease of use. Anyway... 1. I believe that the Lyx math-panel should have tooltips. Good idea actually. Maybe Martin has some time to look into it? More precisely, when you position the mouse pointer above some button, a tooltip should appear (possibly on the status bar, in case it is easier to program) showing the Latex escape sequences needed to write the same symbol by hand. Note that in current 1.3.0cvs in some cases you get a hint in the minibuffer after you inserted a symbol. Let us admit it, not many users (surely not in the windows world :-P) are willing to read manuals before using a program. I believe a complete program should teach itself to the user. Indeed. And reading books is a fairly common way to teach yourself something. I'd rather see the resources spend to implement dancing paper-clips going to decent documentation. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Phonetic fonts
I use lyx since one month. I would like to know how to intsal phonetic fonts (as tipa) and how to use them in a document Thanks for the help you will bring to me. Chamanga
Re: Phonetic fonts
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 02:53:24PM +0200, chamanga wrote:
I use lyx since one month. I would like to know how to intsal phonetic fonts
(as tipa)
You should locate the tipa package somewhere on the net (hshould be called
tipa-1.1-beta.tar.gz or similar), download it, unpack it, go to
pub/dante/fonts/tipa/tipa-1.1-beta/ and run 'nmake install'
and how to use them in a document
There is no real support for this right now. So you have to put
\usepackage{tipa} in your preample (Document-Preample)
and type your tipa code in a LaTeX box:
Ctrl-L followed by \textipa{\turna sdad} etc.
Andre'
--
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security,
will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
subsubsection
Hi,
The graduate school changed the style guideline (I better graduate before
they do this again!) Anyway it looks like I need to tune my preamble again.
In the preamble I have:
\usepackage{sectsty}
\chapterfont{\normalsize\mdseries\centering}
\sectionfont{\normalsize\mdseries\centering}
\subsectionfont{\normalsize\mdseries\textit}
\subsubsectionfont{\normalsize\mdseries\textit}
\paragraphfont{\normalsize\mdseries\textit}
Question 1:
In the TOC the entries need to appear as they are in the text, however the
subsection and subsubsection entries in the TOC are not italic. How can I fix
this? Selecting the titles inside the text won't do it.
Question 2:
I need the text start after the subsubsection title (no break and the text
should not be italic although the title is). How can I achieve this?
Thanks a lot.
Remzi
lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
= Regards, Graham http://digital.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Digital How To - Get the best out of your PC!
Hebrew screen fonts
I read in several places that lyx supports Hebrew with the default install. However I cannot get lyx to type Hebrew in the editor. I made the following changes in the preference dialog, in the language tab I changed the default language to Hebrew, the keyboard map I also changed to Hebrew.kmap, then the editor types characters with dots untop, not Hebrew. In the end I would also like to know how do I change while I type from English to Hebrew and vice versa. I searched in all the documentation and could not come up with the answer so if someone could please help I would appreciate. I am running cygwin on Win2k, lyx running untop of that. Lyx version 1.2.0 Thanks Joseph
Re: first letter dropped in math.bind commands
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 02:01:09PM -0700, Matt Brennan wrote: So it seems that the first letter of the command is being ignored. Sort of. To be safe for the future you should use 'math-insert \root'. That's actually the proper syntax, it's just not checked very thoroughly at the moment. At least there is an obvious, but clumsy workaround for this problem. I can't get other commands in the bind file to work at all. For instance, \bind M-m g math-greek only causes M-m g to appear in the bottom command window, but subsequent characters are not in Greek. Any ideas? Yes. You'd need individual key bindings '\bind M-m g a math-insert \alpha'. But you do not have to do that as these bindings are already in stock math.bind. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: first letter dropped in math.bind commands
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:08:42AM +0200, Johan Ingvast wrote: \bind M-m g a math-insert \alpha \bind M-m g b math-insert \beta \bind M-m g c math-insert \chi I don't known why it is changed this way, Because now everybody can change the bindings to a way he likes as the nmapping c - \chi is no longer hardcoded in mathed. and as far as I've found the toggling is no longer possible. That feature was not too useful (to me at least and to some who responded to some kind of poll) and needed extra hacks, so I just removed it. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
tooltips: a suggestion for Lyx
hello everybody, I happended to raise this problem in comp.text.tex, and someone asked me (hastily) to post about it in this mailing list, so please don't eat me. :-) I know this is a secondary feature, because it is not about functionality but about ease of use. Anyway... 1. I believe that the Lyx math-panel should have tooltips. More precisely, when you position the mouse pointer above some button, a tooltip should appear (possibly on the status bar, in case it is easier to program) showing the Latex escape sequences needed to write the same symbol by hand. This way, it won't be needed to read Latex manuals anymore, in order to learn keyboard shortcuts. You'll pass from mouse clicking to keyboard without any effort and without study. IMO, this is a very important feature. If you know Mathtype 4 or 5 (it is an add-on for MS Word), you know what I mean. In other words: having a good manual is surely a good thing for Lyx; but having NO manuals at all would be even better, if you know what I mean. (I know by experience that many linux users hate this kind of reasoning, but I can't see why) 2. Another thing that I found lacking is: a wizard. For the same reason. Let us admit it, not many users (surely not in the windows world :-P) are willing to read manuals before using a program. I believe a complete program should teach itself to the user. This is not at all difficult to achieve. All we would need is a button what do you want to do?, always on the foreground and well visible. you must click this button whenever you don't know how to do something. As soon as you click it, a dialog box appears whith other buttons, and so on. You begin traversing a hierchical tree where you can locate the exact thing you want to do. For example, these hierarchical levels could be something like: - 1. What do you want to do? --- 1.1. Change something about the way Lyx works 1.2. Change something about the looks of your document look. 1.3. I want to know something. 1.3.1. I want to know something about fonts. ... --- 1.3.1.1. I want to know why my fonts look jagged. ... -- 1.2.1. Change something about how your document appears under Lyx. 1.2.2. Change something about how your document appears when printed. --- This would be an enormous amount of work, because it should totally cover anything you can do with the current menu, anything you can read on the manuals. And if the user asks for something which is out of Lyx's AIM (such as inserting a border or shading around a paragraphs), this wizard should tell the user lyx is not a typesetting program. Once again, I understand that these are minor features compared to functionality. Of course, who already knows Lyx would never use the wizard, but it is not intended for us. Let me know what you think, Maurizio
Re: tooltips: a suggestion for Lyx
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:15:02AM +0200, seguso wrote: 1. I believe that the Lyx math-panel should have tooltips. More precisely, when you position the mouse pointer above some button, a tooltip should appear (possibly on the status bar, in case it is easier to program) showing the Latex escape sequences needed to write the same symbol by hand. It's an excellent idea and will be there by default in the Qt frontend, when we do the math palette 1. What do you want to do? This would be an enormous amount of work, because it should Yep. In fact, so big, I can't imagine it happening any time soon. We have bigger usability fish to fry right now regards john -- Hungarian notation is the tactical nuclear weapon of source code obfuscation techniques. - Roedy Green
Re: tooltips: a suggestion for Lyx
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:15:02AM +0200, seguso wrote: hello everybody, I happended to raise this problem in comp.text.tex, and someone asked me (hastily) to post about it in this mailing list, so please don't eat me. :-) Fine. Now it's time to introduce you to bugzilla.lyx.org which is a very convenient way to make sure your proposal does not get lost. I know this is a secondary feature, because it is not about functionality but about ease of use. Anyway... 1. I believe that the Lyx math-panel should have tooltips. Good idea actually. Maybe Martin has some time to look into it? More precisely, when you position the mouse pointer above some button, a tooltip should appear (possibly on the status bar, in case it is easier to program) showing the Latex escape sequences needed to write the same symbol by hand. Note that in current 1.3.0cvs in some cases you get a hint in the minibuffer after you inserted a symbol. Let us admit it, not many users (surely not in the windows world :-P) are willing to read manuals before using a program. I believe a complete program should teach itself to the user. Indeed. And reading books is a fairly common way to teach yourself something. I'd rather see the resources spend to implement dancing paper-clips going to decent documentation. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Phonetic fonts
I use lyx since one month. I would like to know how to intsal phonetic fonts (as tipa) and how to use them in a document Thanks for the help you will bring to me. Chamanga
Re: Phonetic fonts
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 02:53:24PM +0200, chamanga wrote:
I use lyx since one month. I would like to know how to intsal phonetic fonts
(as tipa)
You should locate the tipa package somewhere on the net (hshould be called
tipa-1.1-beta.tar.gz or similar), download it, unpack it, go to
pub/dante/fonts/tipa/tipa-1.1-beta/ and run 'nmake install'
and how to use them in a document
There is no real support for this right now. So you have to put
\usepackage{tipa} in your preample (Document-Preample)
and type your tipa code in a LaTeX box:
Ctrl-L followed by \textipa{\turna sdad} etc.
Andre'
--
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security,
will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
subsubsection
Hi,
The graduate school changed the style guideline (I better graduate before
they do this again!) Anyway it looks like I need to tune my preamble again.
In the preamble I have:
\usepackage{sectsty}
\chapterfont{\normalsize\mdseries\centering}
\sectionfont{\normalsize\mdseries\centering}
\subsectionfont{\normalsize\mdseries\textit}
\subsubsectionfont{\normalsize\mdseries\textit}
\paragraphfont{\normalsize\mdseries\textit}
Question 1:
In the TOC the entries need to appear as they are in the text, however the
subsection and subsubsection entries in the TOC are not italic. How can I fix
this? Selecting the titles inside the text won't do it.
Question 2:
I need the text start after the subsubsection title (no break and the text
should not be italic although the title is). How can I achieve this?
Thanks a lot.
Remzi
lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
= Regards, Graham http://digital.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Digital How To - Get the best out of your PC!
Hebrew screen fonts
I read in several places that lyx supports Hebrew with the default install. However I cannot get lyx to type Hebrew in the editor. I made the following changes in the preference dialog, in the language tab I changed the default language to Hebrew, the keyboard map I also changed to Hebrew.kmap, then the editor types characters with dots untop, not Hebrew. In the end I would also like to know how do I change while I type from English to Hebrew and vice versa. I searched in all the documentation and could not come up with the answer so if someone could please help I would appreciate. I am running cygwin on Win2k, lyx running untop of that. Lyx version 1.2.0 Thanks Joseph
Re: first letter dropped in math.bind commands
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 02:01:09PM -0700, Matt Brennan wrote: > So it seems that the first letter of the command is being ignored. Sort of. To be safe for the future you should use 'math-insert \root'. That's actually the proper syntax, it's just not checked very thoroughly at the moment. > At least there is an obvious, but clumsy workaround for this problem. I > can't get other commands in the bind file to work at all. For instance, > \bind "M-m g" "math-greek" only causes "M-m g" to appear in the bottom > command window, but subsequent characters are not in Greek. > > Any ideas? Yes. You'd need individual key bindings '\bind "M-m g a" math-insert \alpha'. But you do not have to do that as these bindings are already in stock math.bind. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Re: first letter dropped in math.bind commands
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 09:08:42AM +0200, Johan Ingvast wrote: > \bind "M-m g a" "math-insert \alpha" > \bind "M-m g b" "math-insert \beta" > \bind "M-m g c" "math-insert \chi" > I don't known why it is changed this way, Because now everybody can change the bindings to a way he likes as the nmapping c -> \chi is no longer hardcoded in mathed. > and as far as I've found the toggling is no longer possible. That feature was not too useful (to me at least and to some who responded to some kind of poll) and needed extra hacks, so I just removed it. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
tooltips: a suggestion for Lyx
hello everybody, I happended to raise this problem in comp.text.tex, and someone asked me (hastily) to post about it in this mailing list, so please don't eat me. :-) I know this is a secondary feature, because it is not about functionality but about ease of use. Anyway... 1. I believe that the Lyx math-panel should have tooltips. More precisely, when you position the mouse pointer above some button, a "tooltip" should appear (possibly on the status bar, in case it is easier to program) showing the Latex escape sequences needed to write the same symbol by hand. This way, it won't be needed to read Latex manuals anymore, in order to learn keyboard shortcuts. You'll pass from mouse clicking to keyboard without any effort and without "study". IMO, this is a very important feature. If you know Mathtype 4 or 5 (it is an add-on for MS Word), you know what I mean. In other words: having a good manual is surely a good thing for Lyx; but having NO manuals at all would be even better, if you know what I mean. (I know by experience that many linux users hate this kind of reasoning, but I can't see why) 2. Another thing that I found lacking is: a wizard. For the same reason. Let us admit it, not many users (surely not in the windows world :-P) are willing to read manuals before using a program. I believe a complete program should "teach itself" to the user. This is not at all difficult to achieve. All we would need is a button "what do you want to do?", always on the foreground and well visible. you must click this button whenever you don't know how to do something. As soon as you click it, a dialog box appears whith other buttons, and so on. You begin traversing a hierchical tree where you can locate the exact thing you want to do. For example, these hierarchical levels could be something like: - 1. What do you want to do? --- 1.1. Change something about the way Lyx works 1.2. Change something about the looks of your document look. 1.3. I want to know something. 1.3.1. I want to know something about fonts. ... --- 1.3.1.1. I want to know why my fonts look jagged. ... -- 1.2.1. Change something about how your document appears under Lyx. 1.2.2. Change something about how your document appears when printed. --- This would be an enormous amount of work, because it should totally cover anything you can do with the current menu, anything you can read on the manuals. And if the user asks for something which is out of Lyx's AIM (such as inserting a border or shading around a paragraphs), this wizard should tell the user "lyx is not a typesetting program". Once again, I understand that these are minor features compared to functionality. Of course, who already knows Lyx would never use the wizard, but it is not intended for us. Let me know what you think, Maurizio
Re: tooltips: a suggestion for Lyx
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:15:02AM +0200, seguso wrote: > 1. I believe that the Lyx math-panel should have tooltips. > More precisely, when you position the mouse pointer above > some button, a "tooltip" should appear (possibly on the > status bar, in case it is easier to program) showing the > Latex escape sequences needed to write the same symbol by > hand. It's an excellent idea and will be there by default in the Qt frontend, when we do the math palette > 1. What do you want to do? > This would be an enormous amount of work, because it should Yep. In fact, so big, I can't imagine it happening any time soon. We have bigger usability fish to fry right now regards john -- "Hungarian notation is the tactical nuclear weapon of source code obfuscation techniques." - Roedy Green
Re: tooltips: a suggestion for Lyx
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 11:15:02AM +0200, seguso wrote: > hello everybody, > > I happended to raise this problem in comp.text.tex, and > someone asked me (hastily) to post about it in this mailing > list, so please don't eat me. :-) Fine. Now it's time to introduce you to bugzilla.lyx.org which is a very convenient way to make sure your proposal does not get lost. > I know this is a secondary feature, because it is not about > functionality but about ease of use. Anyway... > > 1. I believe that the Lyx math-panel should have tooltips. Good idea actually. Maybe Martin has some time to look into it? > More precisely, when you position the mouse pointer above > some button, a "tooltip" should appear (possibly on the > status bar, in case it is easier to program) showing the > Latex escape sequences needed to write the same symbol by > hand. Note that in current 1.3.0cvs in some cases you get a hint in the minibuffer after you inserted a symbol. > Let us admit it, not many users (surely not in > the windows world :-P) are willing to read manuals before > using a program. I believe a complete program should "teach > itself" to the user. Indeed. And reading books is a fairly common way to teach yourself something. I'd rather see the resources spend to implement dancing paper-clips going to decent documentation. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
Phonetic fonts
I use lyx since one month. I would like to know how to intsal phonetic fonts (as tipa) and how to use them in a document Thanks for the help you will bring to me. Chamanga
Re: Phonetic fonts
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 02:53:24PM +0200, chamanga wrote:
> I use lyx since one month. I would like to know how to intsal phonetic fonts
> (as tipa)
You should locate the tipa package somewhere on the net (hshould be called
tipa-1.1-beta.tar.gz or similar), download it, unpack it, go to
pub/dante/fonts/tipa/tipa-1.1-beta/ and run 'nmake install'
> and how to use them in a document
There is no real support for this right now. So you have to put
\usepackage{tipa} in your preample (Document->Preample)
and type your tipa code in a LaTeX box:
Ctrl-L followed by \textipa{\turna @ sdad} etc.
Andre'
--
Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security,
will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
subsubsection
Hi,
The graduate school changed the style guideline (I better graduate before
they do this again!) Anyway it looks like I need to tune my preamble again.
In the preamble I have:
\usepackage{sectsty}
\chapterfont{\normalsize\mdseries\centering}
\sectionfont{\normalsize\mdseries\centering}
\subsectionfont{\normalsize\mdseries\textit}
\subsubsectionfont{\normalsize\mdseries\textit}
\paragraphfont{\normalsize\mdseries\textit}
Question 1:
In the TOC the entries need to appear as they are in the text, however the
subsection and subsubsection entries in the TOC are not italic. How can I fix
this? Selecting the titles inside the text won't do it.
Question 2:
I need the text start after the subsubsection title (no break and the text
should not be italic although the title is). How can I achieve this?
Thanks a lot.
Remzi
lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
= Regards, Graham http://digital.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Digital How To - Get the best out of your PC!
Hebrew screen fonts
I read in several places that lyx supports Hebrew with the default install. However I cannot get lyx to type Hebrew in the editor. I made the following changes in the preference dialog, in the language tab I changed the default language to Hebrew, the keyboard map I also changed to Hebrew.kmap, then the editor types characters with dots untop, not Hebrew. In the end I would also like to know how do I change while I type from English to Hebrew and vice versa. I searched in all the documentation and could not come up with the answer so if someone could please help I would appreciate. I am running cygwin on Win2k, lyx running untop of that. Lyx version 1.2.0 Thanks Joseph
