Hello,
I'm using LyX now for half a year or so and I was initially
confused by the menu entries.
I now realize that part of the confusion was the arrangement
of the entries and that some entries appear twice in the menus.
I therefore would like to give a few comments to the layout of
the menus as it is in 1.1.6CVS. My intentions are (1) to remove the
double entries and (2) to group a few entries in a more logical
arrangement (a draft of a new layout is at the bottom of this mail).
I haven't spend time on digging into the code for a rewrite
of the menus; I could do that if this email doesn't generate
lots of flames.....
Here we go:
*) "Goto" actions are spread over several menu entries:
Edit->Goto error
Edit->Goto note
Refs->Goto Reference->...
TOC
TOC->List of figures->...
TOC->List of Tables->...
(why "TOC->List of algorithms->..." is absent?)
I suggest: remove the Goto entries in the Edit menu and remove
the "TOC" and "Refs" entries all together; merge them all in one
"Goto" entry in the main menu. A "Goto->Go back" should then be
applicable to all goto-actions listed here.
"Refs" has now also insert-entries, but you don't need them here
because they are *already* covered by "Insert->Cross Reference".
That's also the place where you expect them to be!
*) Table Of Contents (and the related LOF, LOT, LOA) in Edit:
Edit->Table of contents...
Edit->List of tables...
Edit->List of figures...
Edit->List of algorithms...
"Edit" is the wrong place; you're only *viewing* the
TOC/LOT/LOF/LOA, not editing it! Where else could it then go?
Possibly under a new "View" entry in the main menu, together with
"View LaTeX log file" and maybe some others (view dvi & view ps).
*) Table insert appears twice in the menus:
Edit->Table->Insert Table
Insert->Table
The first one should go to keep things simple and logical!
What do you think?
Regards,
Rob.
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The possible new layout of the menus:
File-> (unchanged, only move the "view/update dvi" and
"view/update postscript" to the new "View" entry).
Edit->Undo
Redo
----
Cut
Copy
Paste
Find & Replace
---
Floats & Insets
Spell checker
Check TeX
---
Version control
---
Paste Primary selection as text
Paste Primary selection as paragraphs
Goto->References->...
Table Of Contents->...
List Of Figures->...
List Of Tables->...
List Of Algorithms->...
Note
Error
Go Back
View->Dvi
Update dvi
Postscript
Update Postscript
LaTeX log file
Table Of Contents->...
List Of Figures->...
List Of Tables->...
List Of Algorithms->...
Layout-> (unchanged)
Insert-> (unchanged)
Math-> (unchanged)
Options-> (unchanged)
Documents-> (unchanged)
Help->(unchanged)
