Thanks, Georg. I knew about the possibility of adding symbols to the
toolbar and the little math toolbar is nice. However, what would be
needed are buttons where I can click and, e.g., get all symbols as
pull-down
menu (see the SWP-LyX comparison at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/
LyxVersusScientificWorkplace),
etc. Similar to what SWP or Mathtype have.
Is that possible with LyX yet? If so, I will be happy to sit down a
couple of
weekends and create a nice demo setup which would provide the required
ease of use.
In order to become the best scientific typesetting solution -- which
LyX is in terms of technology
just not yet as a user experience -- it needs to be better in equation
editing than Scientific Workplace or Mathtype.
Would people be interested in a set of recommendations for maximizing
LyX's user friendliness? I have shown some general ideas in a comparison
with SWP but I could make the user friendliness recommendations much
more precise.
Best,
-Jan
On May 24, 2006, at 1:19 AM, Georg Baum wrote:
Jan Peters wrote:
How difficult would it be to move the Math Panel into the toolbar?
You can have most of it already in the toolbar. Have a look at the
files
lib/ui/default.ui and lib/ui/stdtoolbars.ui. They already define a
small
math toolbar that is switched off by default. This can be switched
on and
expanded to cover almost all math constructs. For example, we have
the line
Item "Insert integral" "math-insert \int"
in the math toolbar section in stdtoolbars.ui. Adding the line
Item "Insert closed integral" "math-insert \oint"
will just work: A new button appears, and it will use the image file
lib/images/math/oint.xpm. AFAIK the only reason that this toolbar
is rather
small is that nobody of the developers uses it. Any contribution that
extends it (or creates an alternative "full" version) will be
welcome. This
may need some new icons in lib/images/math, but apart from that it is
simply creating some new entries in the .ui file.
Any volunteers (also for documenting this)?
Putting the specialized dialogs (e.g. for delimiters) of the math
panel into
the toolbar would require some coding, but I don't think it would
be too
difficult. If anybody wants to have a try at this I can tell where
to look.
Georg
Best wishes,
Jan Peters
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