Re: [RFC] new dialog to scale and rotate document parts was: [patch] module for the boxes provided by the package graphicx
Am 09.11.2014 um 21:01 schrieb Richard Heck: Seems fine to me. How does this interact with the other boxes we support? This will be independent of our box dialog/inset because the graphic boxes can contain almost everything and these boxes are to modify its content while the other boxes are there to either prevent modifications like makebox or to decorate the content like framebox. Furthermore providing also scaling and rotating in the box dialog make it overcrowded and we then need to handle dozesns of complicated cases, for example when a user only wants a rotation without putting the content into a makebox or minipage or he want to put it in a minipage and rotate the minipage... Btw. there exist colored versions of \fbox and \framebox. It is on my todo list to add support for that to the existing box dialog/inset but this will require much development time I don't have atm. regards Uwe
Re: [RFC] new dialog to scale and rotate document parts was: [patch] module for the boxes provided by the package graphicx
Am 09.11.2014 um 21:01 schrieb Richard Heck: Seems fine to me. How does this interact with the other boxes we support? This will be independent of our box dialog/inset because the graphic boxes can contain almost everything and these boxes are to modify its content while the other boxes are there to either prevent modifications like makebox or to decorate the content like framebox. Furthermore providing also scaling and rotating in the box dialog make it overcrowded and we then need to handle dozesns of complicated cases, for example when a user only wants a rotation without putting the content into a makebox or minipage or he want to put it in a minipage and rotate the minipage... Btw. there exist colored versions of \fbox and \framebox. It is on my todo list to add support for that to the existing box dialog/inset but this will require much development time I don't have atm. regards Uwe
Re: [RFC] new dialog to scale and rotate document parts was: [patch] module for the boxes provided by the package graphicx
On 11/08/2014 11:09 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 04.11.2014 um 02:25 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: Dear LyXers, attached is a module to support the 4 boxes provided by the LaTeX-package graphicx: - \scalebox - \rotatebox - \reflectbox - \resizebox I am now using my module in daily work and it turned out that it is too complicated for average users. I therefore want to retract my module. The much better solution is a dialog in LyX where the user can specify all necessary things. LyX can then take care of that the result is a compilable LaTeX code. The graphic boxes are a general feature and therefore deserve in my opinion is better support than a module. One often has e.g. to resize a table to assure that a certain width is not exceeded (despite that the text in the table gets smaller). Rotating things is also a general task that occur from time to time. So if you agree, I revert the module from master and develop a dialog for them. Attached is the design of the dialog I have in mind. With this the user doesn't have to take care about the quite complicated LaTeX behind it - which is the main goal of LyX. LyX will then also take care when several boxes need to be nested, e.g. if one wants to rotate and scale. OK to go on this way? Seems fine to me. How does this interact with the other boxes we support? Richard
Re: [RFC] new dialog to scale and rotate document parts was: [patch] module for the boxes provided by the package graphicx
On 11/08/2014 11:09 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 04.11.2014 um 02:25 schrieb Uwe Stöhr: Dear LyXers, attached is a module to support the 4 boxes provided by the LaTeX-package graphicx: - \scalebox - \rotatebox - \reflectbox - \resizebox I am now using my module in daily work and it turned out that it is too complicated for average users. I therefore want to retract my module. The much better solution is a dialog in LyX where the user can specify all necessary things. LyX can then take care of that the result is a compilable LaTeX code. The graphic boxes are a general feature and therefore deserve in my opinion is better support than a module. One often has e.g. to resize a table to assure that a certain width is not exceeded (despite that the text in the table gets smaller). Rotating things is also a general task that occur from time to time. So if you agree, I revert the module from master and develop a dialog for them. Attached is the design of the dialog I have in mind. With this the user doesn't have to take care about the quite complicated LaTeX behind it - which is the main goal of LyX. LyX will then also take care when several boxes need to be nested, e.g. if one wants to rotate and scale. OK to go on this way? Seems fine to me. How does this interact with the other boxes we support? Richard
