Re: Use of indexing tools
On 9/1/23 17:08, Andrew Parsloe wrote: On 2/09/2023 4:03 am, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 8/31/23 20:07, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I hadn't used the indexing tools for many (10?) years and had memories of a tedious process but having now compiled another index, the process is vastly improved -- with only one quibble: not enough built-in shortcuts. 1. The index-insert lfunction needs a shortcut. Since so many the single-key shortcuts are taken, I just use Alt-I+d, which activates the Insert menu, then uses the menu accelerator. 2. Once in an index inset, pressing Return to create a subentry is exactly right, but highlights the desirability of having shortcuts for both see and see also references. (I found I inserted most of these 'in a batch' after looking at the first draft of the index.) I assigned my own shortcuts built around ctrl+; for index-insert, ctrl+shift+; to insert see refs and ctrl+alt+; to insert see also refs (the mnemonic is Shift for See, and ALt for ALso). In fact the shortcuts were more complicated to take account of different situations (inset filled with a word or not, word selected or not, word accepatable or not), in the course of which I found myself wanting to put a command-sequence inside command-alternatives. Is this possible? (Riki? -- I see "rgh" introduced command-alternatives.) I don't know if that would work. One problem, likely, is that it's hard to know when the command-sequence has ended and something else has started with the current syntax. That could be fixed. But a second and more serious problem is that the status checking for command sequences is somewhat limited. If I remember right, we only check the first action. The problem is that later actions may depend upon that one, i.e., not be active themselves until it has been completed, and we can't check that. Riki Thanks for the response. In relation to "Alt-I+d" I see that accelerator underlining depends on activating the menu with Alt. Clicking on Insert in the menu bar doesn't show the accelerators. After decades of computer use, I had never noticed this little quirk before (but I see the User's Guide mentions it). I think this is something that got changed in Qt at some point. I don't personally care for it, for exactly this reason. Riki -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
Re: Use of indexing tools
On 2/09/2023 4:03 am, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 8/31/23 20:07, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I hadn't used the indexing tools for many (10?) years and had memories of a tedious process but having now compiled another index, the process is vastly improved -- with only one quibble: not enough built-in shortcuts. 1. The index-insert lfunction needs a shortcut. Since so many the single-key shortcuts are taken, I just use Alt-I+d, which activates the Insert menu, then uses the menu accelerator. 2. Once in an index inset, pressing Return to create a subentry is exactly right, but highlights the desirability of having shortcuts for both see and see also references. (I found I inserted most of these 'in a batch' after looking at the first draft of the index.) I assigned my own shortcuts built around ctrl+; for index-insert, ctrl+shift+; to insert see refs and ctrl+alt+; to insert see also refs (the mnemonic is Shift for See, and ALt for ALso). In fact the shortcuts were more complicated to take account of different situations (inset filled with a word or not, word selected or not, word accepatable or not), in the course of which I found myself wanting to put a command-sequence inside command-alternatives. Is this possible? (Riki? -- I see "rgh" introduced command-alternatives.) I don't know if that would work. One problem, likely, is that it's hard to know when the command-sequence has ended and something else has started with the current syntax. That could be fixed. But a second and more serious problem is that the status checking for command sequences is somewhat limited. If I remember right, we only check the first action. The problem is that later actions may depend upon that one, i.e., not be active themselves until it has been completed, and we can't check that. Riki Thanks for the response. In relation to "Alt-I+d" I see that accelerator underlining depends on activating the menu with Alt. Clicking on Insert in the menu bar doesn't show the accelerators. After decades of computer use, I had never noticed this little quirk before (but I see the User's Guide mentions it). Andrew -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
Re: Use of indexing tools
On 8/31/23 20:07, Andrew Parsloe wrote: I hadn't used the indexing tools for many (10?) years and had memories of a tedious process but having now compiled another index, the process is vastly improved -- with only one quibble: not enough built-in shortcuts. 1. The index-insert lfunction needs a shortcut. Since so many the single-key shortcuts are taken, I just use Alt-I+d, which activates the Insert menu, then uses the menu accelerator. 2. Once in an index inset, pressing Return to create a subentry is exactly right, but highlights the desirability of having shortcuts for both see and see also references. (I found I inserted most of these 'in a batch' after looking at the first draft of the index.) I assigned my own shortcuts built around ctrl+; for index-insert, ctrl+shift+; to insert see refs and ctrl+alt+; to insert see also refs (the mnemonic is Shift for See, and ALt for ALso). In fact the shortcuts were more complicated to take account of different situations (inset filled with a word or not, word selected or not, word accepatable or not), in the course of which I found myself wanting to put a command-sequence inside command-alternatives. Is this possible? (Riki? -- I see "rgh" introduced command-alternatives.) I don't know if that would work. One problem, likely, is that it's hard to know when the command-sequence has ended and something else has started with the current syntax. That could be fixed. But a second and more serious problem is that the status checking for command sequences is somewhat limited. If I remember right, we only check the first action. The problem is that later actions may depend upon that one, i.e., not be active themselves until it has been completed, and we can't check that. Riki -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
Use of indexing tools
I hadn't used the indexing tools for many (10?) years and had memories of a tedious process but having now compiled another index, the process is vastly improved -- with only one quibble: not enough built-in shortcuts. 1. The index-insert lfunction needs a shortcut. 2. Once in an index inset, pressing Return to create a subentry is exactly right, but highlights the desirability of having shortcuts for both see and see also references. (I found I inserted most of these 'in a batch' after looking at the first draft of the index.) I assigned my own shortcuts built around ctrl+; for index-insert, ctrl+shift+; to insert see refs and ctrl+alt+; to insert see also refs (the mnemonic is Shift for See, and ALt for ALso). In fact the shortcuts were more complicated to take account of different situations (inset filled with a word or not, word selected or not, word accepatable or not), in the course of which I found myself wanting to put a command-sequence inside command-alternatives. Is this possible? (Riki? -- I see "rgh" introduced command-alternatives.) Andrew -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
