On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:23:39PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>
> To put it another way, I thought I could just add a Menu* member in
> menuitem and that Menu::expand would just populate that for items of
> type Submenu for Toc and Ref. I have a few questions, though:
I think that my suggestion is a little bit cleaner.
> - for the refs menu, it seems to me that the special entry should just
> provide a list of references (as submenus), not the whole refs menu
> with four times the same information.
It has been claimed that the Refs menu is redundant, and I think that I agree.
The whole purpose of this menu was a fast way for adding references, but
using the new reference dialog (with the keyboard) is as fast as using the
Refs menu.
> - why not modify the refs menu to something similar to
>
> (o) Insert Reference
> ( ) Insert page reference
> ( ) Insert pretty ref
> ( ) Goto ref
> [...]
> -----------------
> label1...label10 >>
> label11...label21 >>
>
> It seems to me that this would be less confusing than having five
> submenus with the same contents (and you have one less click when
> using often the same function). With this view of things, only the
> part under the separator would be a special entry. The rest could be
> handled via normal stuff.
How this would be implemented?
(Does it requires adding new lyxfunc ?)