Interestingly, microsoft word has a lovely feature where it autosizes braces!
So you type (a/b) and the parantheses will match the high of the fraction. I
know lyx has a way of doing this with insert->math->delimiters, but it would be
nice if there was an easier way. You can of course right "\left( \frac{a}{b}
\right)" and the generated PDF will display correctly, but \left and \right
will apear verbatim in LyX itself.
— Isaac Oscar Gariano
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From: Jean-Marc Lasgouttes <lasgout...@lyx.org>
Sent: 16 April 2019 2:28 AM
To: lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org; Isaac Oscar Gariano
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make math autocorrrect work with more than 2 chars
Le 15/04/2019 à 16:08, Enrico Forestieri a écrit :
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 12:16:26PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>>
>> OK, it was just a suggestion. More important would be to have new bindings
>> that use the feature. I guess one candidate is
>> -- > \longrightarrow
>
> Another interesting feature made possible by this patch is the
> following one:
>
> ( * \bigl(
> \bigl( * \Bigl(
> \Bigl( * \biggl(
> \biggl( * \Biggl(
> \Biggl( * (
>
> This will let you type ( and then, by repeteadly hitting *, cycle
> through all fixed sizes of the delimiter. Of course, there should
> be a matching definition for ) and all other delimiters.
Indeed. It would be nice to use <space> for that, like to extend a space.
I wonder though: isn't this already possible with current code?
I find the use of space a bit inconsistent in general in mathed. And I
would often prefer them to do nothing than exit the current cell.
JMarc
