On 12 Nov 2015, at 10:32, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > 2015-11-12 10:19 GMT+01:00 Edwin Leuven: > > thanks Jürgen, but in my experience Frame does not behave the same as nested > Standard > > once i start add for example an Itemize my slide is all messed up (both the > alignment, and a a new slide is added) > > Itemize is not Standard. All except Frame need to be nested (as documented). > > > also, when i then exit the Itemize with a double <enter> the new environment > is now a Standard even though i started with a Frame > > As far as the LaTeX output is concerned, this makes no difference to > non-nested Frame. So it's just a cosmetic issue in the workarea. But maybe we > should indeed reset to Frame rather than Standard here to avoid confusion.
yes, that would be cleaner > things get very messy > > my slide layout is however as i expect it to be when i put the content in a > nested Standard (which the manual also recommends) > > so atm i need to reset Frame to Standard and increasing the nesting every > time i add a line to my slide > > Use Alt+Return to maintain the nesting level. ah, i didn’t know that but even so, perhaps we should consider the behaviour that we have with itemize: <enter> preserves indent, and <enter> on an empty itemize decreases indent we could do the same with nesting no? i think that would be natural > this is interrupting my workflow, and my thought was that this could be > avoided if LyX would default to having a nested Standard as the default > environment in a Frame > > I thought about this, too. But I think it's not easy to implement this in a > sane way. a pity, so there’s no “environment_on_enter” among the layout options? thanks, ed.