Yes!!! This is something which I would love to have for a long
time. Together with importing comments in LaTeX file into LyX as
notes.
Matej
On 9 Jul 2001, at 13:56, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:54:16 -0300 wrote Ralph Boland
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> > Of interest, I also have to send versions of my papers to
> > my supervisor or to co-authors.
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> > It would be very useful to be able to insert comments in the
> > middle of a paragraph. e.g. (break sentence in two)
> >(give reference)
> >
> > I guess margin comments are supposed to provide this
> > facility. However I would like:
> > 1) The comment marker to be more visible.
> > Like the bright yellow and large box of the Note
> > marker.
> > 2) The ability to have the comment appear in
> > the text rather than have to open up the marker
> > (like math equations).
> > This ability needs to controllable on an individual
> > comment basis and on a global basis.
> > 3) The ability to "go to prev/next comment". Thus if
> > someone
> > has marked up my paper with comments I would like to be
> > able to go through them one at a time. I would want to
> > be able to program a key to do this.
> > 4) I personally wouldn't want them printed as happens with
> > margin comments. Personal tastes may vary here.
> > I suppose this could be controllable too.
> >5) Note that a Note comment cannot be used here because
> > it doesn't allow math equations etc. to be placed in
> > them.
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> Note, that almost all would be solved, if a Note would allow math
> etc. (I darkly remember, that there was something like
> "open/close all" for floats + the ability to toggle this by
> clicking) ...
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> So my suggestion would be to make the note box more like a
> footnote box: i.e. it should not open a separate window but an
> inset (like floats, errors, ert-inset, and footnotes) and should
> (as a footnote or a comment) allow all the lyx-stuff like math,
> figures ...
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> The difference to the "Comment" paragraph style would be like the
> one between LaTeX paragraph and ERT-inset (+ the "Go To Note"
> menu entry in the Navigate menu).
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> Normal keybindings would work (xforms and KDE don't work well
> together, therefore my key does in all popup-windows,
> which sometimes is anoying.
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> LaTeX export should also export notes (as comments, may be with a
> leading "%Note:") (Then also optional printing is possible with
> the right package ...)
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> What do other people think of this? Would this be much work or
> could some
> existing code be reused? Should I have posted to devel?
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> Guenter
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