Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-25 Thread Helge Hafting
Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 17:43:10 Julio Rojas wrote: The only feature I miss is a layout editor. I don't know how easy would it be to program one, but that would be one good addition. It's hard Julio. It's hard enough that I couldn't even *specify* a layout editor, though I t

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-25 Thread rgheck
On 03/25/2010 06:20 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-03-23, Trevor Jenkins wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 22 March 2010 17:43:10 Julio Rojas wrote: I'm thinking the best way to address the difficulty of new environments and character

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-25 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-23, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Steve Litt wrote: >> On Monday 22 March 2010 17:43:10 Julio Rojas wrote: >> I'm thinking the best way to address the difficulty of new environments and >> character styles might be to start a public collection of them. ... >

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-23 Thread Pavel Sanda
Steve Litt wrote: > It's hard Julio. It's hard enough that I couldn't even *specify* a layout > editor, though I tried. If I'd been able to specify one, I'd have either note that we did some specification already - year or two ago, just the coder was not found ;) look on the archive if you want

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-23 Thread rgheck
On 03/22/2010 10:52 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: It would appear that on Mar 22, Julio Rojas did say: The only feature I miss is a layout editor. I don't know how easy would it be to program one, but that would be one good addition. Don't know much about that... I just use LyX,

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-23 Thread Rainer M Krug
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Steve Litt > wrote: > > On Monday 22 March 2010 17:43:10 Julio Rojas wrote: > >> The only feature I miss is a layout editor. I don't know how easy > >> would it be to program one, but that would be one good

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-23 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Monday 22 March 2010 17:43:10 Julio Rojas wrote: >> The only feature I miss is a layout editor. I don't know how easy >> would it be to program one, but that would be one good addition. > > It's hard Julio. It's hard enough that I couldn't ev

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-23 Thread Walter van Holst
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 09:15:08 +0100, Julio Rojas wrote: > Yup, this is what I think, but when you have several coworkers working > on collaborative papers in several different LaTeX classes, they > finally have the last laugh. This is why a layout editor would do > wonders to convert our main targ

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-23 Thread Jose Quesada
btw, a chrome extension that does the copy url thing... https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bijpdibkloghppkbmhcklkogpjaenfkg Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin http://www.josequesada.name/ http://twitter.com/Quesada On

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-23 Thread Julio Rojas
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > Oh Gawd no! That is if I understand you to mean that it will check my > spelling as I type, and interrupt my creative flow to inform me that it > thinks I misspelled something. {or even worse silently replacing > misspelled or unknow

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-23 Thread Jose Quesada
> > > Sorry, but HTML has (or can be used for) a semantic markup in a quite > > comparable way. So, keeping sections, links, emphasized text, quotes, > > ... as an option would be an enhancement. > > What we could do is implement some extended paste option that runs a > converter > (HTML->LaTeX->Ly

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Guenter Milde wrote: > > Actuall, I prefer the current default of losing formatting. The whole > > point of LyX is that you focus on structure and content and have LaTeX > > take > > care of formatting. The rest of the world operates on a fundamentally > > braindead paradigm and if I wanted to use

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 22 March 2010 17:43:10 Julio Rojas wrote: > The only feature I miss is a layout editor. I don't know how easy > would it be to program one, but that would be one good addition. It's hard Julio. It's hard enough that I couldn't even *specify* a layout editor, though I tried. If I'd been

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
It would appear that on Mar 22, Julio Rojas did say: > The only feature I miss is a layout editor. I don't know how easy > would it be to program one, but that would be one good addition. Don't know much about that... I just use LyX, I don't really understand it very well, so I'm not grasping th

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread rgheck
On 03/22/2010 05:43 PM, Julio Rojas wrote: The only feature I miss is a layout editor. I don't know how easy would it be to program one, but that would be one good addition. This has been discussed often, and I don't know how hard it would be, either. I actually suspect that getting somethi

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Julio Rojas
The only feature I miss is a layout editor. I don't know how easy would it be to program one, but that would be one good addition. The second one I miss, mostly because I'm not a native English speaker, is online spell checking, but that is coming in 2.0. Again, I have to give my most sincere than

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Steve Litt
On Monday 22 March 2010 08:51:55 Walter van Holst wrote: > Original Message > Subject: Re: things that I miss in lyx > Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:51:24 +0100 > From: Walter van Holst > To: Jose Quesada > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:23:34 +0100, Jose Quesada > > wrote: > > Hi all,

Re: Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-22, Walter van Holst wrote: > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:23:34 +0100, Jose Quesada > wrote: >> 7. the rest of the world operates on rich text/html. LyX doesn't >>(clipboard integration is poor, copy-pasting from/to web loses >>formatting) > Actuall, I prefer the current default o

Fwd: Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Walter van Holst
Original Message Subject: Re: things that I miss in lyx Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:51:24 +0100 From: Walter van Holst To: Jose Quesada On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:23:34 +0100, Jose Quesada wrote: > Hi all, > > In no special order, things that I miss in lyx... > > 1. incremental