On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:33:54AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What i would like is the ability to have constant line spacing in the
> gui work
> area. to be more specific, at the moment the the spacing between the lines is
> affected by both ERT buttons and other special commands, what i would like is
I think the line spacing with ERT buttons can be fixed by fine-tuning
the appearance of the button itself. Make sure the button itself isn't
higher than the text it is inside (i.e. the font used for printing "ERT"
should have the same height as the line font or smaller. The baselines
should be the same, and the gray color that makes it look like a button
shouldn't extend too much.
ERT boxes also take up some space for the top and bottom line of the
box, this can probably be tweaked bvy allowing less room between
in-box text and the lines. Having ERT boxes that don't increase line
spacing would be nice indeed. It is the one thing that most often mess
up on-screen line spacing for me.
> the ability to have a displayed line spacing that would even this out which
> would make reading/scanning a document while editing text easier. it would be
> even better if we could set it to be also 1x, 1.5x, 2x etc displayed on the
> screen.
>
Consider making it a decimal number rather than 3 fixed choices. If we can't
fit the ERT box in a normal line, then maybe it will work with 1.1x
linespacing. And that won't look as bad as 1.5x.
> I am going to try and implement something along the above lines, but any
> pointers would be greatly appreciated...
>
>
> Something along these lines that would also be great is if someone
> could put up
> a list of easy to implement enhancements on the web somewhere with pointers as
> to what to do, this would help newbee's to Lyx like me, we could attempt to
> implement these enhancments, so as to aid with learning the code, and there by
> we can contribute something in the early stages...
For a web list - look at bugzilla.lyx.org where all bugs and feature
requests ("whishlist bugs") are recorded. See if you can find something
that seems easy to you. Good luck!
Helge Hafting
