I'm attaching two patches, one against git master, the other against
the 2.3.x branch. These patches add a starred new line break
formatting option (\\*) to complement "Ragged line break", i.e. the \\
macro.
My specific use case for this is for short stanzas in a verse
environment: \\* will prevent a page break in the middle of a stanza.
For lack of a better term I've called this "Starred line break" though
I'm sure it can be renamed to something more appropriate. I've also
given it the keyboard shortcut of meta-shift-enter, which is in the
ballpark of the other newline-style formatting options.
I've been using this patch at least since the LyX 1.6.0 days, with no problems.
Whether this is the best way to support \\* I'm not sure, but I do
think having the ability to add \\* directly, rather than via ERT, is
very useful.
--
Chris Spiegel
diff --git a/lib/bind/cua.bind b/lib/bind/cua.bind
index 2ba0064c41..7bbdc9dd87 100644
--- a/lib/bind/cua.bind
+++ b/lib/bind/cua.bind
@@ -229,6 +229,7 @@ Format 5
\bind "M-Return" "paragraph-break inverse"
\bind "C-Return" "newline-insert newline"
\bind "C-S-Return" "newline-insert linebreak"
+\bind "M-S-Return" "newline-insert newlinestar"
\bind "C-k" "line-delete-forward"
\bind "C-space" "command-alternatives math-space ; space-insert protected"
\bind "nobreakspace" "space-insert protected"
diff --git a/lib/ui/stdmenus.inc b/lib/ui/stdmenus.inc
index ec5c5c0ed6..9af5f6a322 100644
--- a/lib/ui/stdmenus.inc
+++ b/lib/ui/stdmenus.inc
@@ -464,6 +464,7 @@ Menuset
Item "Optional Line Break|B" "specialchar-insert allowbreak"
Item "Ragged Line Break|R" "newline-insert newline"
Item "Justified Line Break|J" "newline-insert linebreak"
+ Item "Starred Line Break|e" "newline-insert newlinestar"
Separator
Item "New Page|N" "newpage-insert newpage"
Item "Page Break|a" "newpage-insert pagebreak"
diff --git a/src/Color.cpp b/src/Color.cpp
index 7cb520d278..2f88a7d60d 100644
--- a/src/Color.cpp
+++ b/src/Color.cpp
@@ -336,6 +336,7 @@ ColorSet::ColorSet()
{ Color_bottomarea, N_("bottom area"), "bottomarea", grey40, grey80, "bottomarea" },
{ Color_newpage, N_("new page"), "newpage", blue, "#86a4ff", "newpage" },
{ Color_pagebreak, N_("page break / line break"), "pagebreak", RoyalBlue, RoyalBlue, "pagebreak" },
+ { Color_newlinestar, N_("starred newline"), "newlinestar", Green, Green, "newlinestar" },
{ Color_buttonframe, N_("button frame"), "buttonframe", "#dcd2c8", "#dcd2c8", "buttonframe" },
{ Color_buttonbg, N_("button background"), "buttonbg", "#dcd2c8", "#dcd2c8", "buttonbg" },
{ Color_buttonhoverbg, N_("button background under focus"), "buttonhoverbg", "#C7C7CA", "#C7C7CA", "buttonhoverbg" },
diff --git a/src/ColorCode.h b/src/ColorCode.h
index e1a6b0aaa1..34a3862459 100644
--- a/src/ColorCode.h
+++ b/src/ColorCode.h
@@ -208,6 +208,8 @@ enum ColorCode {
Color_newpage,
/// Page break color
Color_pagebreak,
+ /// Non-page breaking line break (\\*) color
+ Color_newlinestar,
// FIXME: why are the next four separate ??
/// Color used for button frame
diff --git a/src/Text3.cpp b/src/Text3.cpp
index 5bfde06679..e38971f054 100644
--- a/src/Text3.cpp
+++ b/src/Text3.cpp
@@ -1146,6 +1146,8 @@ void Text::dispatch(Cursor & cur, FuncRequest & cmd)
docstring const & arg = cmd.argument();
if (arg == "linebreak")
inp.kind = InsetNewlineParams::LINEBREAK;
+ else if (arg == "newlinestar")
+ inp.kind = InsetNewlineParams::NEWLINESTAR;
else
inp.kind = InsetNewlineParams::NEWLINE;
cap::replaceSelection(cur);
diff --git a/src/insets/InsetNewline.cpp b/src/insets/InsetNewline.cpp
index ecfacf47ce..19aef273f5 100644
--- a/src/insets/InsetNewline.cpp
+++ b/src/insets/InsetNewline.cpp
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ void InsetNewlineParams::write(ostream & os) const
case InsetNewlineParams::LINEBREAK:
os << "linebreak";
break;
+ case InsetNewlineParams::NEWLINESTAR:
+ os << "newlinestar";
+ break;
}
}
@@ -70,6 +73,8 @@ void InsetNewlineParams::read(Lexer & lex)
kind = InsetNewlineParams::NEWLINE;
else if (token == "linebreak")
kind = InsetNewlineParams::LINEBREAK;
+ else if (token == "newlinestar")
+ kind = InsetNewlineParams::NEWLINESTAR;
else
lex.printError("Unknown kind: `$$Token'");
}
@@ -145,6 +150,9 @@ ColorCode InsetNewline::ColorName() const
case InsetNewlineParams::LINEBREAK:
return Color_pagebreak;
break;
+ case InsetNewlineParams::NEWLINESTAR:
+ return Color_newlinestar;
+ break;
}
// not really useful, but to avoids gcc complaints
return Color_eolmarker;
@@ -165,6 +173,9 @@ void InsetNewline::latex(otexstream & os, OutputParams const & rp) const
case InsetNewlineParams::LINEBREAK:
os << "\\linebreak{}\n";
break;
+ case InsetNewlineParams::NEWLINESTAR:
+ os << "*\n";
+ break;
default:
os << "\n";
break;
diff --git a/src/insets/InsetNewline.h b/src/insets/InsetNewline.h
index c85a97df66..b7bc0762ac 100644
--- a/src/insets/InsetNewline.h
