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-- \matrm{xy} gets written as \mathrm{x}\mathrm{y}
-
-Dekel:
-
-- LyX crashes when you define a recursive macro
-
-pp - It is possible to put two or more consecutive spaces in math text mode
-
-- InsetFormula::validate is broken
-
-
Eran Tromer:
-
-- When selecting, maybe give a visual indication of the "original"
+- When selecting, maybe give a visual indication of the "original"
anchor, when it differs from the "actual" one.
-Rainer Dorsch:
-
-- 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.
+Álvaro Tejero Cantero <alvaro@antalia.com>
-From: Álvaro Tejero Cantero <alvaro@antalia.com>
-
-- 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
+- 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
+
+ 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
+
+ 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:
+ 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.
-- 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
+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
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.
+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.
+However, on balance I think M-c m should also have that effect.
-3) Math-mode inconsistencies
+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.
+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
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.
+would be best for both.
-6) Scope macros:
+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...
+I'd like is to let LyX know about TeX's scoping rules...
Yves Bastide: