Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-04-05 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 17:43 +0100, Jose Quesada wrote: > btw, to those jabref users eyeing zotero for the fast ref capture who would > not use it because you had to export to bib first... the new FF addon LyZ > makes this on the fly. It's a killer feature, two clicks and you are done. > And your li

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-04-03 Thread rgheck
On 04/03/2010 11:27 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Am Saturday 03 April 2010 15:13:22 schrieb rgheck: On 04/03/2010 02:27 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Just wondering: Would the following be difficult to implement in Lyx or to use it via enter>file> 'external material' ? Wolfgang

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-04-03 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Saturday 03 April 2010 15:13:22 schrieb rgheck: > On 04/03/2010 02:27 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Just wondering: > > > > Would the following be difficult to implement in Lyx or to use it via > > enter>file> 'external material' ? > > > > Wolfgang > > > > From > > http://ctan.tug.org/tex-a

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-04-03 Thread rgheck
On 04/03/2010 02:27 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Just wondering: Would the following be difficult to implement in Lyx or to use it via enter>file> 'external material' ? Wolfgang From http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/texdirflatten.html Collect files related to a LaTeX j

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-04-02 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Just wondering: Would the following be difficult to implement in Lyx or to use it via enter>file> 'external material' ? Wolfgang From http://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/texdirflatten.html Collect files related to a LaTeX job in a single directory. The Perl script parses a

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: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-25 Thread Helge Hafting
Jose Quesada wrote: Hi all, In no special order, things that I miss in lyx... 1. incremental search That'd be nice, sure. 2. sentence autocapitalization Can you specify a way to do this *correctly*, without having the computer make lots of mistakes? Word has botched this compl

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: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-25 Thread rgheck
On 03/25/2010 06:14 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-03-23, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Considering the amount of time I had to spend in documents which did not run through LyX smoothly it had to do with references containing some characters which bothered the program. I realize that this is n

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: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-25 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-23, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Considering the amount of time I had to spend in documents which did not run > through LyX smoothly it had to do with references containing some characters > which bothered the program. I realize that this is not Lyx's fault, but it > would be nice to h

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-25 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-23, rgheck wrote: > On 03/23/2010 05:22 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: >> On 2010-03-22, rgheck wrote: >>> As he said, this is highly non-trivial. And the better the website, the >>> harder it is, since a good website will use semantic markup that is >>> styled by CSS. Then what do you do? >

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: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-23 Thread Jose Quesada
btw, to those jabref users eyeing zotero for the fast ref capture who would not use it because you had to export to bib first... the new FF addon LyZ makes this on the fly. It's a killer feature, two clicks and you are done. And your lib is on the cloud for free... Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. M

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-23 Thread rgheck
On 03/23/2010 09:43 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: Considering the amount of time I had to spend in documents which did not run through LyX smoothly it had to do with references containing some characters which bothered the program. I realize that this is not Lyx's fault, but it would be nice to h

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-23 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Considering the amount of time I had to spend in documents which did not run through LyX smoothly it had to do with references containing some characters which bothered the program. I realize that this is not Lyx's fault, but it would be nice to have a feature (or an external prg) checking for t

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-23 Thread rgheck
On 03/23/2010 05:22 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: On 2010-03-22, rgheck wrote: As he said, this is highly non-trivial. And the better the website, the harder it is, since a good website will use semantic markup that is styled by CSS. Then what do you do? Of course transform semantic marku

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: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-23 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2010-03-22, rgheck wrote: > On 03/22/2010 05:30 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Jose Quesada wrote: >>> Let me try to motivate this feature. >>> 1- It's trivial to implement it, and then make it optional. NO: >> And your regex hits things that are *not* sentence

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: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Hellmut Weber
Am 22.03.2010 18:36, schrieb 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

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
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 Que

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 &

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

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Graham Smith
Jose I couldn't find anything. Can you post your findings here? Mmmm, not really as I'm not especially interested and didn't keep any records, but the add ons for Chrome searched from within Chrome came up with something called multiclip, plus a couple of others And "Clipboard manager" an

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Jose Quesada
Graham, I couldn't find anything. Can you post your findings here? Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin http://www.josequesada.name/ http://twitter.com/Quesada On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Graham Smith wrote: > Jose > > >

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Graham Smith
Jose Yes, as described above, I wanted something that would add the url to the clipboard contents. That ff plugin does it. I wish it existed for chromium, though, and that urls pasted became clickable... Have you googled for a chromium extension? A quick google here suggested a several possi

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Jose Quesada schrieb: This not a matter of altering the layout. I want the sidebar to change color/font, not the text in the edit area. OK, this is a different feature. You can add a further enhancement request but I fear that no developer will implement this soon. I don't think layouts co

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 03/22/2010 12:35 PM, rgheck wrote: On 03/22/2010 06:50 AM, Olivier Ripoll wrote: 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) That is the most annoying "feature" I've seen ap

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 03/22/2010 01:20 PM, Jose Quesada wrote: I want the cursor to jump to last edits (say at least 10) without having to undo things. That is, the functionality of the red arrow, but for all previous edits, not only the last one. This works in mostly any text editor worth its salt. I agree it wo

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... > >

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Pavel Sanda
Maria Gouskova wrote: > If this is implemented, I hope it is set to *off* by default--it's for sure pavel

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Jose Quesada
Hi Uwe, all, > say section is bold, subsection is not. Or colored backgrounds (level1 is >> > darker, level 6 is lighter... etc). > I'd love to assign colors to sections to be able to track them visually. > > For this purpose we have layout files. Dependent on the document class, you can there d

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread rgheck
On 03/22/2010 06:50 AM, Olivier Ripoll wrote: 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) That is the most annoying "feature" I've seen appearing in 10 years. When using softw

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread rgheck
On 03/21/2010 10:14 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote: Am 21.03.2010 22:12, schrieb Jose Quesada: 2. sentence autocapitalization Hmm. Most of us hate that. Let me try to motivate this feature. 1- It's trivial to implement it, and then make it optional. Indeed, we should let the users decide. Please o

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread rgheck
On 03/22/2010 05:30 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote: On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Jose Quesada wrote: Let me try to motivate this feature. 1- It's trivial to implement it, and then make it optional. 2- The only way to check whether you have missed a capital is by loading all your lyx files on

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Olivier Ripoll
Jose Quesada wrote: Hi all, In no special order, things that I miss in lyx... Hi, There are 2 points in your list for which our tastes diverge (and according to the thread, I'm not the only one). 2. sentence autocapitalization I hate that. One of the first things I switch off

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-22 Thread Trevor Jenkins
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Jose Quesada wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 3:28 AM, rgheck wrote: > > > On 03/20/2010 09:23 PM, Jose Quesada wrote: > > > > >  1. incremental search > > Do you mean F3? > > no, I mean that as you type in the search box things that match get > immediately acti

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-21 Thread Maria Gouskova
>>>  2. sentence autocapitalization >>> Hmm. Most of us hate that. > >> >> >> Let me try to motivate this feature. >> 1- It's trivial to implement it, and then make it optional. > > Indeed, we should let the users decide. Please open an enhancement report in > our bug tracking system. If this

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-21 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Am 21.03.2010 22:12, schrieb Jose Quesada: Do you mean F3? no, I mean that as you type in the search box things that match get immediately active. No need to press enter, it works together with 'search highlight occurences'. the best way to experience this is to open vim, press / and start typ

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-21 Thread Jose Quesada
Thanks Dotan, Didn't know about sticky keys. very useful. the ff extension is nice, but I have moved to chromium. Oh well, a matter of time... Best, -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Max Planck Institute, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Berlin http://www.josequesada.name/ http://twitter.com/Q

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
> 3- I hate to do keyboard combos. they are bad for rsi and slower overall. > Autocapitalization would save thousands of those a month. > Use your window manager's sticky keys feature then. It should be found under accessibility. -- Dotan Cohen http://bido.com http://what-is-what.com

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-21 Thread Graham Smith
Paul, i have installed the firefox add on and it only quotes the text + url What do you want it to paste? You can modify what it pastes via the preferences. Graham

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-21 Thread Paul Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> > Imagine you want to keep a snippet you found online. you copy it. when > pasting it in lyx, it will add a little note with the url it came from, and > the time it was collected. This is a killer feature for > notetaking/research. > >> rh >> >

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-21 Thread Graham Smith
>Imagine you want to keep a snippet you found online. you copy it. when >pasting it in lyx, it will add a little note with the url it came from, >and the time it was collected. This is a killer feature for >notetaking/research. Over the years I have come across several ways of doing this via th

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-21 Thread Jose Quesada
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 3:28 AM, rgheck wrote: > On 03/20/2010 09:23 PM, Jose Quesada wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> In no special order, things that I miss in lyx... >> >> >> > All of this is personal, but... > > 1. incremental search >> >

Re: things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-20 Thread rgheck
On 03/20/2010 09:23 PM, Jose Quesada wrote: Hi all, In no special order, things that I miss in lyx... All of this is personal, but... 1. incremental search Do you mean F3? 2. sentence autocapitalization Hmm. Most of us hate that. 3. grammar check (not crucial) Same

things that I miss in lyx

2010-03-20 Thread Jose Quesada
Hi all, In no special order, things that I miss in lyx... 1. incremental search 2. sentence autocapitalization 3. grammar check (not crucial) 4. search highlight occurences 5. bold, color background on outline. A way for the eyes to fixate landmarks in long outlines. 6. edit history (go