Re: Re: Re: Does LyX 1.2.0 support character styles?

2002-08-13 Thread Steve Litt
On Tuesday 13 August 2002 05:32 am, Guenter Milde wrote: > Still arguing: > > On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:42:17 +0100 wrote John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > - I have to interact with colleagues that use plain latex. Something > > > like \newcommand{\LiTa}{LiTaO$_3$} is quite common there. It woul

Re: Re: Re: Does LyX 1.2.0 support character styles?

2002-08-13 Thread Guenter Milde
Still arguing: On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:42:17 +0100 wrote John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > - I have to interact with colleagues that use plain latex. Something like > >\newcommand{\LiTa}{LiTaO$_3$} is quite common there. It would be nice to > >have it supported in LyX. > > Right. T

Re: Re: Re: Does LyX 1.2.0 support character styles?

2002-08-12 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 12 August 2002 04:19 pm, Guenter Milde wrote: > On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:42:17 +0100 wrote John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm not talking about touching .layout. This is yet again something > > different. I am talking about the UI per-document settings I outlined > > earlier. > > Sor

Re: Re: Re: Does LyX 1.2.0 support character styles?

2002-08-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 17:42:17 +0100 wrote John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm not talking about touching .layout. This is yet again something > different. I am talking about the UI per-document settings I outlined > earlier. Sorry, I seem to have mixed your proposal with the one from Steve Li

Re: Re: Does LyX 1.2.0 support character styles?

2002-08-12 Thread John Levon
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:37:46AM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: > > > If the macros should be used for a whole bunch of documents, they could be > > > saved in a template file ... > > > > I think macros are a particularly awkward and ugly way to do semantic > > mark up of normal text within LyX. W

Re: Re: Does LyX 1.2.0 support character styles?

2002-08-12 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:37:46AM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: > I call placeholder, what in 1.1.6 is created with > > M-x math-macro-arg You can type #4 in 1.2 to get '#4'. > It is normally replaced with the small blue boxes one knows from \sqrt or > \frac. My proposal would be to fill it

Re: Re: Does LyX 1.2.0 support character styles?

2002-08-12 Thread Guenter Milde
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 16:22:00 +0100 wrote John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:02:35PM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: > > > If the macros should be used for a whole bunch of documents, they could be > > saved in a template file ... > > I think macros are a particularly awkward

Re: Does LyX 1.2.0 support character styles?

2002-08-09 Thread John Levon
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:02:35PM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: > If the macros should be used for a whole bunch of documents, they could be > saved in a template file and would be available for all documents using this > template. I think macros are a particularly awkward and ugly way to do sem

Re: Does LyX 1.2.0 support character styles?

2002-08-09 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 04:02:35PM +0200, Guenter Milde wrote: > A drop down menu that lets you choose between all the macros in > the actual document is a good idea! (may be context-sensitive: all > math-macros when in mathed and all text-macros when in text mode) Actually there can't be a clean

Re: Does LyX 1.2.0 support character styles?

2002-08-09 Thread Guenter Milde
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002 11:10:36 +0200 wrote Thomas Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... > > > > > On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:11:26 -0400 wrote Steve Litt > > > > > > > > I don't understand what you've written above, so let me > > > > describe how I envision LyX character styles. > > > > I envision it as a dro

Re: Re: Does LyX 1.2.0 support character styles?

2002-08-09 Thread Thomas Templin
On Thursday 08 August 2002 20:46, Steve Litt wrote: > On Thursday 08 August 2002 12:50 pm, Thomas Templin wrote: > > On Thursday 08 August 2002 17:35, Steve Litt wrote: > > > On Thursday 08 August 2002 06:18 am, Guenter Milde wrote: > > > > On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:11:26 -0400 wrote Steve Litt > > >

Re: Does LyX 1.2.0 support character styles?

2002-08-08 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Thomas Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | For my own documents i am using a file with a lot of \newcommand's | like | \newcommand{\company} [1] {\textbf{#1}} yes... | and then | \newcommand{\redhat} {\company{RedHat}\xspace} but this would be a combination of what I call (static) "abbr