Re: what is the productivity of lyx
On 28/06/2011 12:30 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, Thanks a lot for the contribution work by lyx team. I have written my thesis and articles in lyx for a long time. I found it the best frontend of latex, for tables and equations. This is the advantage of lyx, and also lyx is an integrated IDE environment not like autex in emacs, everything should be configured by yourself. Sometimes, when I write equations and tables, I really enjoy the input in lyx, cause I could input all frequently-used math symbols by shortcuts, I also changed the prefix of math shortcut, it is very convenient. This is great. I reconfigure the shortcuts, I nearly drop off my mouse. Still, I need to use mouse for 5% input in lyx. However, when I want to refer to labels and citations, each time, a dialog pops up and I need to select some items and finish it, even with dialog shortcuts (e.g. Alt+a,b,c,f,g,e,h), it is a bit boring. When inserting a figure or table, one also needs to finish the pop-up dialog. They really affects the productivity of writing. What do you think about it? I have some suggestions, for example, 1. can we define some templates such that one can insert figure floats with one graphics or two graphics, or four graphics, and these styles have been set as we defined a priori. 2. as for inserting label references or citations, other than answering a popup dialog, can we consider some GUI style like ido (e.g. ido in emacs)? it will indicates us some items to select, not a dialog, we can directly type something to filter these items and select one item by a confirm shortcut, just like ido-find-file in emacs. it might be continent. Indeed, each time, we do not need to change the style for each item. In most cases, for the popup dialog in lyx, I just select the essential information and then confirm it. What about your ideas? Sincerely, Hi, There is at least one bug report ( http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6529 ) about keyboard accessibility in the citation dialogs. Feel free to add your comments about the citation dialog there. Although your new implementation ideas probably are a little bit orthogonal to this bug report. -- Julien
Re: what is the productivity of lyx
On 28/06/2011 12:30 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, Thanks a lot for the contribution work by lyx team. I have written my thesis and articles in lyx for a long time. I found it the best frontend of latex, for tables and equations. This is the advantage of lyx, and also lyx is an integrated IDE environment not like autex in emacs, everything should be configured by yourself. Sometimes, when I write equations and tables, I really enjoy the input in lyx, cause I could input all frequently-used math symbols by shortcuts, I also changed the prefix of math shortcut, it is very convenient. This is great. I reconfigure the shortcuts, I nearly drop off my mouse. Still, I need to use mouse for 5% input in lyx. However, when I want to refer to labels and citations, each time, a dialog pops up and I need to select some items and finish it, even with dialog shortcuts (e.g. Alt+a,b,c,f,g,e,h), it is a bit boring. When inserting a figure or table, one also needs to finish the pop-up dialog. They really affects the productivity of writing. What do you think about it? I have some suggestions, for example, 1. can we define some templates such that one can insert figure floats with one graphics or two graphics, or four graphics, and these styles have been set as we defined a priori. 2. as for inserting label references or citations, other than answering a popup dialog, can we consider some GUI style like ido (e.g. ido in emacs)? it will indicates us some items to select, not a dialog, we can directly type something to filter these items and select one item by a confirm shortcut, just like ido-find-file in emacs. it might be continent. Indeed, each time, we do not need to change the style for each item. In most cases, for the popup dialog in lyx, I just select the essential information and then confirm it. What about your ideas? Sincerely, Hi, There is at least one bug report ( http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6529 ) about keyboard accessibility in the citation dialogs. Feel free to add your comments about the citation dialog there. Although your new implementation ideas probably are a little bit orthogonal to this bug report. -- Julien
Re: what is the productivity of lyx
On 28/06/2011 12:30 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: Hi everyone, Thanks a lot for the contribution work by lyx team. I have written my thesis and articles in lyx for a long time. I found it the best frontend of latex, for tables and equations. This is the advantage of lyx, and also lyx is an integrated IDE environment not like autex in emacs, everything should be configured by yourself. Sometimes, when I write equations and tables, I really enjoy the input in lyx, cause I could input all frequently-used math symbols by shortcuts, I also changed the prefix of math shortcut, it is very convenient. This is great. I reconfigure the shortcuts, I nearly drop off my mouse. Still, I need to use mouse for 5% input in lyx. However, when I want to refer to labels and citations, each time, a dialog pops up and I need to select some items and finish it, even with dialog shortcuts (e.g. Alt+a,b,c,f,g,e,h), it is a bit boring. When inserting a figure or table, one also needs to finish the pop-up dialog. They really affects the productivity of writing. What do you think about it? I have some suggestions, for example, 1. can we define some templates such that one can insert figure floats with one graphics or two graphics, or four graphics, and these styles have been set as we defined a priori. 2. as for inserting label references or citations, other than answering a popup dialog, can we consider some GUI style like ido (e.g. ido in emacs)? it will indicates us some items to select, not a dialog, we can directly type something to filter these items and select one item by a confirm shortcut, just like ido-find-file in emacs. it might be continent. Indeed, each time, we do not need to change the style for each item. In most cases, for the popup dialog in lyx, I just select the essential information and then confirm it. What about your ideas? Sincerely, Hi, There is at least one bug report ( http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6529 ) about keyboard accessibility in the citation dialogs. Feel free to add your comments about the citation dialog there. Although your new implementation ideas probably are a little bit orthogonal to this bug report. -- Julien
Re: what is the productivity of lyx
On 28. juni 2011 18:30, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: [...] I have some suggestions, for example, 1. can we define some templates such that one can insert figure floats with one graphics or two graphics, or four graphics, and these styles have been set as we defined a priori. My solution to this is to make the first float in the document manually. (Insert a float, insert an image, center it, ...) After that, I copy+paste the entire float and just changes the image filename and reference label. This saves time over creating every float from scratch. Helge Hafting
Re: what is the productivity of lyx
On 28. juni 2011 18:30, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: [...] I have some suggestions, for example, 1. can we define some templates such that one can insert figure floats with one graphics or two graphics, or four graphics, and these styles have been set as we defined a priori. My solution to this is to make the first float in the document manually. (Insert a float, insert an image, center it, ...) After that, I copy+paste the entire float and just changes the image filename and reference label. This saves time over creating every float from scratch. Helge Hafting
Re: what is the productivity of lyx
On 28. juni 2011 18:30, Wei-Dong Lian wrote: [...] I have some suggestions, for example, 1. can we define some templates such that one can insert figure floats with one graphics or two graphics, or four graphics, and these styles have been set as we defined a priori. My solution to this is to make the first float in the document manually. (Insert a float, insert an image, center it, ...) After that, I copy+paste the entire float and just changes the image filename and reference label. This saves time over creating every float from scratch. Helge Hafting
