Hi Gorik,
you wrote:
> a) (how) is it possible to draw a nth-square root ? It should look like
>
> n /--------\
> _ / n
> \/ 1 - x
M-m s in math mode gives a _s_quare root, M-m r an n-th root.
Unfortunately, there's no clickable button associated with it.
> b) I think that it should be possible to divide a long text in lyx into
> different files (such as the chapters of a book), e.g. called a
> "project". Then there could be one page covering the project
> (containing [...]
You should have a look at the \include-Features in the Insert-Menu.
Read the "Extended Features" document that you can reach under the Help
menu, chapter 1.5 deals with multipart documents...
> Clicking on a document should lyx then make to jump to the correct
> window/file. So the different chapters can be compiled to a dvi-file
That's exactly what's happening now, at least with LyX-1.0.4
> (including the header stuff!) while writing the text (resulting in wrong
> pagenumbers et al.). If the text is complete, the whole text can be
> compiled.
>
> I assume that this request is not new.
The only problem left is inserting cross-references that are not
originated in the current document. This one's a bit tricky but not
unsolveable. Ask me, if you have problems with it.
> c) similarily, it should be possible to use MINIPAGES with lyx (e.g. in
> the same way as included eps-files, where you click on the file and open
> a window that shows the minipage/eps-file contents)
In the above mentioned "Extended Features" document section 1.9.2 deals
with minipages. There are handled a bit more complicated than you
described above, but it works. Sure, the WYSIWYM layout is not that
"clear" as with eps-files which is due to the fact, that LyX does not
know how the minipage will look like in Real World (TM), before it has
been rendered by LaTeX. With eps files this step is done via Ghostscript
in a background process, so LyX DOES know about the appearance of the
eps file.
Future enhancements could---perhaps?---render the minipage seperately
(is that really possible with LaTeX?) and insert the resulting dvi-file
(better: eps-file) in a LyX environment similar to included eps-files.
But that are dreams of the future!
> More to come...
...yeah, but---please---read the documentation before asking! Thanks...
...Frank
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