Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-23 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 23/11/2023 à 09:31, Daniel a écrit : I took what I learned in this discussion and created https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12978. Thank you. This is a very good analysis as far as I understand it. JMarc -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-23 Thread Daniel
I took what I learned in this discussion and created https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12978. Daniel -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-21 Thread Daniel
On 2023-11-21 18:19, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 11/21/23 06:17, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 21/11/2023 à 07:54, Daniel a écrit : I see. But my point was that I don't think that it is specific to my use case. The reason being that the comment feature is a default feature found in many

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-21 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 11/21/23 02:29, Isaac Oscar Gariano wrote: The `todonotes` module provides insets for this... Personally though I just defined my own inset... Right! This is the "LyX way": Leverage the gazillion packages that already exist, or else define your own. Also I'd have some of the modules be

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-21 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 11/21/23 06:17, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 21/11/2023 à 07:54, Daniel a écrit : I see. But my point was that I don't think that it is specific to my use case. The reason being that the comment feature is a default feature found in many applications these days and that this indicates a

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-21 Thread Daniel
On 2023-11-21 12:17, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 21/11/2023 à 07:54, Daniel a écrit : I see. But my point was that I don't think that it is specific to my use case. The reason being that the comment feature is a default feature found in many applications these days and that this indicates

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-21 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 21/11/2023 à 07:54, Daniel a écrit : I see. But my point was that I don't think that it is specific to my use case. The reason being that the comment feature is a default feature found in many applications these days and that this indicates a quite general usefulness of it. As I wrote

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-20 Thread Isaac Oscar Gariano
les be loaded by default, such as the todonotes module, and title and preamble hacks. — Isaac Oscar Gariano From: lyx-devel on behalf of Daniel Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2023 7:54:09 PM To: lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: Using Comment notes the right way On 2023-

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-20 Thread Daniel
On 2023-11-19 22:30, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 11/19/23 15:31, Daniel wrote: On 2023-11-19 12:20, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 19/11/2023 à 07:47, Daniel a écrit : On 2023-11-15 11:47, Daniel wrote: 2. Allow free spacing in Comments. That is typically a feature in sticky notes in

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-19 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 11/19/23 15:31, Daniel wrote: On 2023-11-19 12:20, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 19/11/2023 à 07:47, Daniel a écrit : On 2023-11-15 11:47, Daniel wrote: 2. Allow free spacing in Comments. That is typically a feature in sticky notes in other applications which is handy if one wants just

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-19 Thread Daniel
On 2023-11-19 12:20, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 19/11/2023 à 07:47, Daniel a écrit : On 2023-11-15 11:47, Daniel wrote: 2. Allow free spacing in Comments. That is typically a feature in sticky notes in other applications which is handy if one wants just to quickly type stuff down without

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-19 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 11/19/23 06:20, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 19/11/2023 à 07:47, Daniel a écrit : On 2023-11-15 11:47, Daniel wrote: 2. Allow free spacing in Comments. That is typically a feature in sticky notes in other applications which is handy if one wants just to quickly type stuff down without

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-19 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 19/11/2023 à 07:47, Daniel a écrit : On 2023-11-15 11:47, Daniel wrote: 2. Allow free spacing in Comments. That is typically a feature in sticky notes in other applications which is handy if one wants just to quickly type stuff down without bothering with special formatting. It basically

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-18 Thread Daniel
On 2023-11-18 10:28, Daniel wrote: On 2023-11-17 10:12, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 17/11/2023 à 08:43, Daniel a écrit : It still seems to me that LyX should provide a ready to use commenting feature that can be globally toggled on and off in the export. And it seems to me that the

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-18 Thread Daniel
On 2023-11-17 10:12, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 17/11/2023 à 08:43, Daniel a écrit : It still seems to me that LyX should provide a ready to use commenting feature that can be globally toggled on and off in the export. And it seems to me that the "Comment" note is on the right track here.

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-18 Thread Daniel
On 2023-11-18 01:20, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 11/17/23 04:17, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 17/11/2023 à 08:00, Daniel a écrit : One difference I noted is that branches have a strange indentation at the beginning. But I seem to remember that this is a bug rather than a feature. A

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-17 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 11/17/23 04:17, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 17/11/2023 à 08:00, Daniel a écrit : One difference I noted is that branches have a strange indentation at the beginning. But I seem to remember that this is a bug rather than a feature. A bug indeed. It's because we treat the beginning of

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 17/11/2023 à 08:00, Daniel a écrit : As it is, a yellow note is the “always inactive” branch. And it serves this purpose pretty well. If you need a bubble-like tool (for revision, for example), it has to be a new one. Don't let the yellow fool you :) I never felt the need for branches.

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-17 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 17/11/2023 à 08:43, Daniel a écrit : It still seems to me that LyX should provide a ready to use commenting feature that can be globally toggled on and off in the export. And it seems to me that the "Comment" note is on the right track here. It just needs a facelift (some nice label color

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-16 Thread Daniel
On 2023-11-16 15:22, Pavel Sanda wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 02:00:29PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I do not have time for a detailed comment, but you should really take a hard look at branches. They are an incredibly useful tool. I agree. Just for a inspiration I attach how 3

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-16 Thread Daniel
On 2023-11-16 14:00, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: Le 16/11/2023 à 10:58, Daniel a écrit : But couldn't there be a case where you want some people to get the comments in LaTeX but not others? Why do I have to make a decision on this by choosing a particular note. Yes, I could put stuff into

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-16 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 11/16/23 09:22, Pavel Sanda wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 02:00:29PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: I do not have time for a detailed comment, but you should really take a hard look at branches. They are an incredibly useful tool. I agree. Just for a inspiration I attach how 3

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-16 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 02:00:29PM +0100, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I do not have time for a detailed comment, but you should really take a hard > look at branches. They are an incredibly useful tool. I agree. Just for a inspiration I attach how 3 different branches can be used for 3

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-16 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 16/11/2023 à 10:58, Daniel a écrit : But couldn't there be a case where you want some people to get the comments in LaTeX but not others? Why do I have to make a decision on this by choosing a particular note. Yes, I could put stuff into branches but it feels a bit like taking a

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-16 Thread Daniel
On 2023-11-16 10:58, Daniel wrote: On 2023-11-15 23:31, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 11/15/23 05:47, Daniel wrote: I recently discovered that I might have been using LyX Notes while I should have been using Comment notes. I was wondering why LyX Notes inherit the font

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-16 Thread Daniel
On 2023-11-15 23:31, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote: On 11/15/23 05:47, Daniel wrote: I recently discovered that I might have been using LyX Notes while I should have been using Comment notes. I was wondering why LyX Notes inherit the font (https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12939). Comment notes

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-15 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 11/15/23 05:47, Daniel wrote: I recently discovered that I might have been using LyX Notes while I should have been using Comment notes. I was wondering why LyX Notes inherit the font (https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12939). Comment notes do not inherit the font of the surrounding text

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-15 Thread Pavel Sanda
On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 11:47:40AM +0100, Daniel wrote: > 3. Make it optional whether Comments are exported or not. Another typical > feature. There could be both a global (for all comments) setting and a local > (for individual comments). Not exactly what you ask for, but some comment-conversion

Re: Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-15 Thread Isaac Oscar Gariano
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Using Comment notes the right way

2023-11-15 Thread Daniel
I recently discovered that I might have been using LyX Notes while I should have been using Comment notes. I was wondering why LyX Notes inherit the font (https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/12939). Comment notes do not inherit the font of the surrounding text which seems sensible for a comment.