Re: Access menu items under OS X
Am 07.08.2013 um 03:37 schrieb Jerry : > > On Aug 6, 2013, at 6:04 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > >> Hi >> >> I recently switched from Linux to OS X. >> >> One thing I haven't figured out is how I can easily access the menu >> items easily via keyboard shortcut. >> >> Under Linux, I did CTRL-I -- N - N to insert a Lyx note. Under OS X >> (Mountain Lion) I have to use several keyboard shortcuts and navigate >> with the cursor keys to open the Insert menu and I insert charactars i >> the text: >> >> - CRTL-F2 gives focus to the Meu Bar >> - i navigates to the Insert menu, but does not open it AND inserts an "i" >> in the document. >> - Cursor Down opens the menu >> - and so on. >> >> Am I missing something here (I hope so)? >> >> Cheers, >> >> Rainer >> >> -- >> Rainer M. Krug >> >> email: RMKruggmailcom >> > Hi Ranier, > > For all the violence that the Qt widget set does to the Mac interface, it > does do a lot of things right. One of these is that it plays well with the > Keyboard System Preference (Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Keyboard -> > Keyboard Shortcuts -> Application Shortcuts). There, you can set any > (available) keystroke combination to any menu item, using the modifier keys > Shift, Command, Option, or Control, plus a normal key. This is a lot of > combinations and you should be able to find many that do not conflict with > already-assigned keystrokes. > > Maybe someone could take it up with the developers why so many often-used > menu items in LyX are not assigned key combinations out of the box. I don't know if Insert -> Note -> LyX-Note is a so often used menu item… but in principle you're right. > The method you describe is also available but is rarely used by Mac users > because they don't know it is possible, and because it takes more effort than > the above method for many instances. As you have discovered, you can get > focus to move to the menu bar. (I found that Command-F2 is much easier to hit > than Control-Anything.) Once the menu bar has focus, start typing letters > until focus moves to the main menu item you want (usually one key is > sufficient). Then hit Return (easier than down-arrow) and start typing > letters again until the next level item is selected, hit Return, and so on. > This will get you to any menu key without using pre-assigned key > combinations. It should not insert letters into your document as long as > focus remains in the menu structure. Thank you for describing this feature. Yes, it should not insert letters - but LyX-2.0.6 at least is build with Qt-4.8.4 for Carbon-API and this moves the focus *and inserts the letter*. I've checked the same with LyX-2.1.0-beta1. This build is done with Cocoa-API based Qt and here it works. But I'd prefer to add the shortcuts anyway. My hand-crafted shortcut for note-insert is: Control-n-n. When using the menu-focus-based solution I need to type (with german interface): Control-F2-e-Enter-not-Enter. "not" is needed to move it away from "Nomenklatur…" to "Notiz". Another problem is the "typing timeout". If you are to slow the focus doesn't move to the targeted menu item. Obviously one can practice this to avoid it. Stephan
Re: Access menu items under OS X
On Aug 6, 2013, at 6:04 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > Hi > > I recently switched from Linux to OS X. > > One thing I haven't figured out is how I can easily access the menu > items easily via keyboard shortcut. > > Under Linux, I did CTRL-I -- N - N to insert a Lyx note. Under OS X > (Mountain Lion) I have to use several keyboard shortcuts and navigate > with the cursor keys to open the Insert menu and I insert charactars i > the text: > > - CRTL-F2 gives focus to the Meu Bar > - i navigates to the Insert menu, but does not open it AND inserts an "i" > in the document. > - Cursor Down opens the menu > - and so on. > > Am I missing something here (I hope so)? > > Cheers, > > Rainer > > -- > Rainer M. Krug > > email: RMKruggmailcom > Hi Ranier, For all the violence that the Qt widget set does to the Mac interface, it does do a lot of things right. One of these is that it plays well with the Keyboard System Preference (Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts -> Application Shortcuts). There, you can set any (available) keystroke combination to any menu item, using the modifier keys Shift, Command, Option, or Control, plus a normal key. This is a lot of combinations and you should be able to find many that do not conflict with already-assigned keystrokes. Maybe someone could take it up with the developers why so many often-used menu items in LyX are not assigned key combinations out of the box. The method you describe is also available but is rarely used by Mac users because they don't know it is possible, and because it takes more effort than the above method for many instances. As you have discovered, you can get focus to move to the menu bar. (I found that Command-F2 is much easier to hit than Control-Anything.) Once the menu bar has focus, start typing letters until focus moves to the main menu item you want (usually one key is sufficient). Then hit Return (easier than down-arrow) and start typing letters again until the next level item is selected, hit Return, and so on. This will get you to any menu key without using pre-assigned key combinations. It should not insert letters into your document as long as focus remains in the menu structure. Jerry
Re: APA6 New paragraph at end of seriate environment
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 8:19 AM, John Kane wrote: > A minor question. If I am using apa6 and the seriate environment how do I > get a new paragraph at the end of the list? Example attached. > I don't know the 'right' way to do this, but it is possible to trick it into working. Just add a protected space (ctrl+space) on a separate line before your new paragraph. See attached. > It's easy enough to just reword the paragraph to avoid the problem but it > bugs me. > Re-wording a paragraph is sometimes a good idea, but it would be crazy to be forced to by the software. I would consider this a bug, or at least an annoyance in the template. It is not clear to me how to write a layout to properly deal with lists like this. I think we have great new machinery with LyX 2.1 that will make this possible, but I have to look into it more to know exactly. I am in dissertation writing mode, so I probably won't get to it for a month or so. Maybe someone here knows? Jacob seriate.solution.lyx Description: Binary data
Re: Font problem in MikTeX 2.9
Thanks Paul. I tried both to "update formats" and install packages with no good results. I was kind of in a rush, so I reinstalled MikTeX and it worked. I have been having many problems with MikTeX 2.9... I am kind of fed up... Regards. - Julio Rojas jcredbe...@gmail.com On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: > Two things come to mind. First, open a DOS window and run the command > > kpsewhich ecsi.mf > > It should tell you where the ecsi font source code is installed (probably > in > the jknappen package). If you get a blank line as the response, you need to > install a package containing the font. > > If the font is installed, try opening the MiKTeX settings application and > clicking the "update formats" button. I vaguely recall one or two occasions > where installation or update of packages through the package manager > somehow > bollixed the formats, leading to font errors (on installed fonts); updating > formats seemed to fix it. > > Paul > > >
Re: Access menu items under OS X
Am 06.08.2013 um 15:04 schrieb Rainer M Krug : > Hi > > I recently switched from Linux to OS X. > > One thing I haven't figured out is how I can easily access the menu > items easily via keyboard shortcut. > > Under Linux, I did CTRL-I -- N - N to insert a Lyx note. Under OS X > (Mountain Lion) I have to use several keyboard shortcuts and navigate > with the cursor keys to open the Insert menu and I insert charactars i > the text: > > - CRTL-F2 gives focus to the Meu Bar > - i navigates to the Insert menu, but does not open it AND inserts an "i" > in the document. > - Cursor Down opens the menu > - and so on. > > Am I missing something here (I hope so)? No, out of the box these shortcuts don't work, IMHO. Fortunately you may define them 1:1 yourself. I did it for note-insert - using the Preference editor, the user bind file is attached. This file resides in "$HOME/Library/Application Support/LyX-2.0" For 2.1 I'd think it's a good idea to add the insert menu commands at least to the set of known shortcuts. I'll do this later. It's a little bit work - one has to do it for different languages. Stephan user.bind Description: Binary data
APA6 New paragraph at end of seriate environment
A minor question. If I am using apa6 and the seriate environment how do I get a new paragraph at the end of the list? Example attached. It's easy enough to just reword the paragraph to avoid the problem but it bugs me. seriate.problem.lyx Description: application/lyx
Access menu items under OS X
Hi I recently switched from Linux to OS X. One thing I haven't figured out is how I can easily access the menu items easily via keyboard shortcut. Under Linux, I did CTRL-I -- N - N to insert a Lyx note. Under OS X (Mountain Lion) I have to use several keyboard shortcuts and navigate with the cursor keys to open the Insert menu and I insert charactars i the text: - CRTL-F2 gives focus to the Meu Bar - i navigates to the Insert menu, but does not open it AND inserts an "i" in the document. - Cursor Down opens the menu - and so on. Am I missing something here (I hope so)? Cheers, Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug email: RMKruggmailcom
Re: Fonts antialiasing (RGB vs. grayscale)
Scott, thank you for the tip, I think I'll be using lyx2.0 from now on. Unfortunately, the problem persists in both versions (2.0.6 and 2.1.0). -- wbr, Dmitry On Mon, 2013-08-05 at 19:43 -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Hi Dmitry, > > I don't know if it will fix this problem, but you might want to see if > it's solved in LyX 2.0.6. Since you're on Ubuntu, it's very easy to > use the newest stable version of LyX without having to give up your > current version. They can be both installed with no risk. To do this, > see the instructions here: > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu#toc3 > > Scott > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Dmitry Zotikov wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've been using LyX on Ubuntu 11.xx for quite a while (I believe that > > was version 2.0.2 or 2.0.3) and used to have fonts rendered like this: > > http://s22.postimg.org/ql77qjb0x/Screenshot_Ly_X_doc_Intro_lyx_read_only.png > > > > Recently I've migrated to Ubuntu 13.04 which has LyX version 2.0.3, but > > apparently uses a different version of QT. Fonts are rendered > > differently as well: > > http://s10.postimg.org/t47iudqzd/Screenshot_from_2013_08_03_18_20_38.png > > > > Is it possible to make the fonts rendered as they were before? > > > > AFAIU, the difference is that in the first case it was RGB antialiasing, > > while in the second it's "grayscale". I thought that might have been a > > QT's problem, but in other QT apps the fonts are perfectly fine (and in > > the LyX's windows other than the main editing area). > > > > -- > > wbr, Dmitry > >
