On Wednesday 01 May 2002 10:35 am, R. Lahaye wrote: > Angus Leeming writes: > > On Tuesday 30 April 2002 8:42 pm, Herbert Voss wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 30 April 2002 2:33 pm, R. Lahaye wrote: > > > >>This patch includes this and it makes the US page sizes > > > >>consistent; of the form "US [type]", in both, Preferences and > > > >>Document Layout. > > > > > > > > Nice work. Applied in my tree. > > > > > > are you sure, that there are no problems with the space, because > > > preferences is valid in all parts of LyX? > > > > > > Herbert > > > > I've been taking my time for exactly this reason. It transpires that none > > of the choices are used verbatim. Ie, the strings don't matter to LyX. > > It's actually like this: exchange "US letter" and "A4" in the list and > you'll get the letter layout when clicking on A4, and v.v. Apparently > only the order is important (A4 is number such and such in the list) and > the real page size is picked from another list, number such and such. > > I wanted to synchronize the order of the page sizes in Preferences and > Document Layout, but failed because I couldn't to find "the other list" > with the real page sizes. We should change this setup, so that A4 > automatically connects to its A4 page size, without using its position > in the page size list! > > Regards, > Rob.
Indeed. Using the same mechanism as is used by f.ex the character dialog. (Receives a vector<pair<GUI string, value> > from it's controller.) 1.3 Angus
