Re: On a Mac, how do I specify a keyboard shortcut to go to the beginning or end of a document?
Am 28.06.2012 um 13:08 schrieb Daisuke Koya: > Hello all, > > I'd like to know whether there's a keyboard shortcut on LyX for Mac to go to > either the beginning or end of a document. I've read somewhere that the > "Control + Home" and "Control + End" keys, respectively, should do this, but > they don't seem to work. I am using the "mac" bind file, although I don't > know what this does. AFAIK, mac bind file is the standard binding on Mac OS X. For me it is working with Cmd-Up resp. Cmd-Down. But I have a Mac Book - hopefully it's the same for you in case you have a full blown keyboard. Stephan
Theorists labbook package - comments and help solicitation
Hello LyX users and developers, my name is Peter Novak and since around 2001 I am a (passionate) user of LyX (as also documented by my bug reports and feature requests at http://www.lyx.org/trac/search?q=walkmanyi), though I did not read the LyX-users mailing lists till now. To scratch one of many itches of my professional life, I created an unpolished quick-hack LaTeX/LyX package aimed at creation and manipulation of lab books for theorists. I include a motivation for writing the package below and discuss it in the accompanying notes to the package accessible from here: http://www.aronde.net/theolabbook.tar.gz (readme.pdf/lyx) file. Hereby I would like to solicit comments from the LyX users community, which includes also many research professionals, especially in applied mathematics and computer science, which is what I care for myself. The best outcome of this announcement for me would be getting help with improvements of the package - these are also briefly discussed in the readme notes to the package. Below, I am including the motivation for writing the package, which (hopefully) illuminates the problem I want to solve. In the case somebody finds this kind of work useful, I would be happy to give back something to the LyX community as I am definitely grateful to the LyX team for providing this great tool I rely on in my every-day work since many years. Best regards, Peter. *** Motivation Keeping a research lab-book is a daily bread for many researchers, such as experimental physicists. It helps them to keep track of their experiments, equipment, results, as well as capture their ideas about the stuff they work on. Typically a researcher, or a team, keeps one lab-book per project. This suits the typical workflow of experimental research, where the evolution of a project can be captured as a (more, or less) linear stream of notes in a lab book. Scientists in more theoretical disciplines, such as (applied) mathematics, or in computer science often deal with several intertwined and related, yet distinct topics at once. In a consequence the evolution of their thoughts from inception to a finished paper is often rather non-linear, rather meandering stream of ideas and notes, which are difficult to order linearly before the idea/project is ripe enough and finally “clicks in”. Yet, due to this non-linearity, researchers in theoretical fields are perhaps even more in a need to capture their research notes so that they do not get lost. There is definitely a need for flexible tools and workflows to help theorists capture, organize and expose their ideas and research notes. Theolabbook is an attempt to solve this problem for users which center their daily life around TeX related tools, which are especially useful when one deals with mathematics. The central requirements driving the development of the theolabbook package are the following: 1.- notes should be media-rich in terms to the extent TeX allows. That is, should easily include math, pictures, figures, etc.; 2.- notes can be scribbled in a linear fashion, their order should be irrelevant; 3.- the package should provide tools for rapid and simple organization and re-organization of the set of notes, result of which is primarily a document, the lab-book instance; 4.- the editing of the notes should be as simple as possible, yet as good as possible. This is a no-brainer, LyX is the editor of choice; 5.- the package should facilitate also publishing of the notes on the web to support the open notebook research (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_notebook_science). As of publishing this document, the package implements requirements 1-3 (supported only in Unix environments, for reasons, see the internal philosophy of the package in the readme document), to a large extent also 4 and completely lacks support for 5. By publishing the package as is together with the readme ntroductory text, my hope is to firstly, receive comments, suggestions, and criticism from interested LyX users; and secondly, solicit help with improvements, improving upon the implementation of the requirement 4 and working out 5. The rest of the readme document is structured as follows: after a brief discussion of related work and existing tools for the problem of capturing and organization of a non-linear stream of notes, I explain the guts of the theolabbook package, provide a step-by-step installation instructions, explain included examples and finally discuss its shortcomings and points where I need help from others. *** Related work The observation of non-linearity of research notes in many disciplines is of course a well known issue. Some of the popular solutions to the problem is the use of wikis and blogs (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_research, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_notebook_science). While blogs facilitate publication and open discussion of research r
On a Mac, how do I specify a keyboard shortcut to go to the beginning or end of a document?
Hello all, I'd like to know whether there's a keyboard shortcut on LyX for Mac to go to either the beginning or end of a document. I've read somewhere that the "Control + Home" and "Control + End" keys, respectively, should do this, but they don't seem to work. I am using the "mac" bind file, although I don't know what this does. Thank you very much in advance for the help, Daisuke
Re: Having "ascii art" type in document?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/06/12 11:03, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2012-06-27, Rainer M Krug wrote: > >> Hi > >> I would lkie to have something like the following in a document: > >> top +-a +-b ?-c > >> Are there any nice symbols I could use for this? especially the last one, >> the ?, should be a >> "left bottom corner"? > > While the bottom corner did not survive the mail delivery, most of the > "box-drawing" Unicode > characters 0x2500 ... 0x256c can be used directly in LyX. For a monospaced > environment, you may > try the "LyXCode" style. Thanks - that's it. I found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character for a complete list of these Box-drawing characters. Cheers, Rainer > > Günter > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/sI5EACgkQoYgNqgF2ego6ZQCgi6GXClI4d/PnQdO3P61xt2ls HX8An1drxr6iEaVrMyJrUvP9aI35bYnP =ppm+ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Colouring "depth markers" - Feature suggestion?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/06/12 11:10, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > Op 28-6-2012 11:01, Rainer M Krug schreef: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 28/06/12 10:59, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: >>> Op 27-6-2012 14:26, Rainer M Krug schreef: Hi I am working on a beamer presentation and having trouble with seeing the depth of the environments clearly. Is there a way of colouring these "brackets" on the left hand side in different colours, so that it is easier to see in which level I am? >>> Tools->Preferences->Look&Feel->Colors->"depth bar" ? >> True - I discovered that one as well. But there is only one colour for all >> depths. >> >> To really see which depth it is, it would be usefull to have each depth a >> different coloured >> depth marker. > > Ah.. I didn't get this subtlty from your original message. Sorry - I seem to have the habit to send unclear questions ... > > Aren't three depth bars enough to tell you that the depth is three... ? Or do > you have > documents with large depths ? Not really when you are making a presentation, in which you have a block, in which you have two columns, each with an overlay and each with a block... Not an everyday scenario, but at the moment I am confronted with 6 depths ... > > Maybe we could color the background of the paragraphs slightly lighter > depending on the depth. Would be an option, with customizable colors ramp But for many applications, this might be to obtrusive, and the differently colored markers might be sometimes better - probably both, so that one can customize it, but both would work. Cheers, Rainer > > Vincent > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/sIr8ACgkQoYgNqgF2egoRGwCdENaCsO1t+7QZ3tLQoUMHgRtK wfYAoIBeD53JUgLa38F9GLBnehS31SgX =A43B -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Colouring "depth markers" - Feature suggestion?
Op 28-6-2012 11:01, Rainer M Krug schreef: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/06/12 10:59, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: Op 27-6-2012 14:26, Rainer M Krug schreef: Hi I am working on a beamer presentation and having trouble with seeing the depth of the environments clearly. Is there a way of colouring these "brackets" on the left hand side in different colours, so that it is easier to see in which level I am? Tools->Preferences->Look&Feel->Colors->"depth bar" ? True - I discovered that one as well. But there is only one colour for all depths. To really see which depth it is, it would be usefull to have each depth a different coloured depth marker. Ah.. I didn't get this subtlty from your original message. Aren't three depth bars enough to tell you that the depth is three... ? Or do you have documents with large depths ? Maybe we could color the background of the paragraphs slightly lighter depending on the depth. Vincent
Re: Having "ascii art" type in document?
On 2012-06-27, Rainer M Krug wrote: > Hi > I would lkie to have something like the following in a document: > top > +-a > +-b > ?-c > Are there any nice symbols I could use for this? especially the last one, the > ?, should be a "left > bottom corner"? While the bottom corner did not survive the mail delivery, most of the "box-drawing" Unicode characters 0x2500 ... 0x256c can be used directly in LyX. For a monospaced environment, you may try the "LyXCode" style. Günter
Re: Colouring "depth markers" - Feature suggestion?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/06/12 10:59, Vincent van Ravesteijn wrote: > Op 27-6-2012 14:26, Rainer M Krug schreef: >> Hi >> >> I am working on a beamer presentation and having trouble with seeing the >> depth of the >> environments clearly. Is there a way of colouring these "brackets" on the >> left hand side in >> different colours, so that it is easier to see in which level I am? >> > > Tools->Preferences->Look&Feel->Colors->"depth bar" ? True - I discovered that one as well. But there is only one colour for all depths. To really see which depth it is, it would be usefull to have each depth a different coloured depth marker. Rainer > > Vincent - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D):+49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/sHVsACgkQoYgNqgF2egpGNACggLs/mDfHgfaoptvB48Ig7paU va8An2p0fZbGFyw71l/ciZB+tgQ2PP0u =KbW+ -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Colouring "depth markers" - Feature suggestion?
Op 27-6-2012 14:26, Rainer M Krug schreef: Hi I am working on a beamer presentation and having trouble with seeing the depth of the environments clearly. Is there a way of colouring these "brackets" on the left hand side in different colours, so that it is easier to see in which level I am? Tools->Preferences->Look&Feel->Colors->"depth bar" ? Vincent
