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Rainer Dorsch: - Entering \mathbf{c} in math mode is displayed as written (without backslash) - I know the latex code of a lot of math symbols displayed by lyx, but not all of them. Thus I have to use the math panel for only a single symbol in a formula. I think it would be very useful, if the latex code of the symbol would be displayed as a hint, if the mouse positioned over it. Marcus (Suran@gmx.net) - In math-mode I can switch back to text-mode in a formula but then I am not able to type Umlauts. - If the math-panel has the focus I can type text but not switch into math-mode or use some of the other keyboard-shortcuts. From: Álvaro Tejero Cantero - I suggest creating a different "kewybinding namespace" for the formulas, since you could put to good use all those keybindings from the menu (M-?, C-?) thath currently do their job PLUS getting you out of the formula. Seriously, it'd be great to have more keys free, so M-d t would be time derivative and M-d ? derivative with respect to the variable ?. And so on. - I'm no experienced C++ programmer, but if you consider it appropriate, I could write a scritp in python for this one (I'm also very optimistic). Tell me what you think: Flattening macros. Sometimes it's annoying the fact that once you have written a macro, you can't touch at it's "constant parts". I call flattening to the process of substituting all macros with LaTeX code. Task: designing a macro substitution system that reads from a file (possibly the same file as the document's) the macros and parses the document doing the appropriate replacements This is very useful, because sometimes you have a big expression in a macro and you want to change an index only. What do you do then?. You retype everything (perhaps several times in the document) or you create extremely generic and parametrizable macros that aren't very fast to fill in the majority of cases. - cut&paste inside math-mode doesn't work the X fashion (middle button doesn't paste anything). - I remember having heard that a search-replace function was planned, so I won't repeat that. Only that the flattening option would be then easier to implement on top of that. - Some math symbols aren't very well supported (to my knowledge). I'm thinking of [] options. Herbert Voss: - it's not possible to enter superscript when the ^-char works as a dead key. with the second ^- or the space the cursor jumps outside the mathbox. Jules Bean: a) If something's easy & quick in LaTeX then it should be easy & quick in LyX (unless it really isn't very common). b) Actions which are used frequently should be a single key-press, even if that's not very easy to remember. You learn it. c) Actions which are used rarely should be mnemonic -- easy to remember -- even if they are multiple keypresses. Things you do rarely you care less about the time it takes to perform. As an aside, you may think that I'm whining over nothing. However, when you enter math mode as often as I do (often more than once a sentence) it gets very annoying, especially as compared to simply typing '$' in plain emacs. Also, you may say 'why don't you just change your bindings file?'. I will ;) but I wanted to start some discussion on this since it can benefit everyone! More serious, though, than the number of characters which need to be typed is the confusing nature of the command. 'M-c m', typed once, puts you into math-mode. However, typing 'M-c m' again doesn't put you out of math-mode --- it puts you into math-text mode. Then hitting it again puts you back into normal math-mode. IMO, 'modal' keys should either be idempotent (so hitting it the second time does nothing) or self-inverting. In fact, the inverse to 'M-c m' is either 'ESC' or simply a space typed at the end of the block --- which is confusing, since they're not of the same 'shape' as the command that got you in there. Now, I'm not saying that 'space' shouldn't be allowed as a short-cut to get you out of math-mode; it's a most useful and natural one, I like it a lot. However, on balance I think M-c m should also have that effect. 3) Math-mode inconsistencies Sometimes 'the same action' has the same keystroke both within and without math-mode. This is very sensible. However, it is very annoying when they don't behave the way you're expecting them to. For example, 'M-c e' puts you into 'emphasise' mode. Ignoring the fact that in text mode this is italics, and in math-mode it stands for the calligraphic character set, I think of these as the same action, so I like the fact that they have the same keys. However, in math-mode, 'M-c e' is idempotent, (and you need 'M-c space' to get back into normal) whereas in text-mode 'M-c e' is self-inverse. These are the two possibilities I listed as acceptable before, but consistency would be nice ;-) IMO, self-inverse would be best for both. 5) Proposal : a 'ligatures' or 'autocorrect' system One of the very minor, but useful, features of TeX is the way it lets you type the nearest approximation to what you want using a 'typewriter keyboard', and substitutes the typographically neat equivalent. In particular, 'fancy' quotes (") and en and em dashes (---). I propose that this UI element could be taken up a level into LyX, with a system that does the following (for example): -> becomes \rightarrow <- becomes \leftarrow => becomes \Rightarrow (etc..) ==> becomes \Longrightarrow (etc..) This may only be appropriate in math mode, of course. This family bug me in particular because they take ages to type using a \-escape. Undoubtedly sharp minds will think of others, and also we need some way of actually typing those sequences as literals when we want them. 6) Scope macros: The current macro system is clever, but could be neater. One improvement I'd like is to let LyX know about TeX's scoping rules... Yves Bastide: - use AMS's \text instead of \mbox. It supports accented characters, among others... (selected via validate()?) Angus: - make math lables editable