Re: Editing names for TOC, captions, ...

2012-07-15 Thread Richard Heck

On 07/15/2012 10:40 AM, Julian Parker wrote:

It would be great, if the document-settings would also have a window,
where you can change the fixed names that Lyx uses for some elements.
E.g. "fig." instead of "figure", and the same for tables, TOC, etc.
Because often users have to use special terms that are given by the
university, the magazine,... I know this is possible with
LaTeX-syntax. But people who use Lyx do that because they don't want
to use LaTeX. A GUI for the naming of that elements would be
excellent.

This is harder than it seems, to do in a general way, since different 
LaTeX classes have quite

different ways of changing these things. But it's worth thinking about.

Richard




Editing names for TOC, captions, ...

2012-07-15 Thread Julian Parker
It would be great, if the document-settings would also have a window,
where you can change the fixed names that Lyx uses for some elements.
E.g. "fig." instead of "figure", and the same for tables, TOC, etc.
Because often users have to use special terms that are given by the
university, the magazine,... I know this is possible with
LaTeX-syntax. But people who use Lyx do that because they don't want
to use LaTeX. A GUI for the naming of that elements would be
excellent.