Additions to documentation toolbar

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at lyx.org
Sun May 3 03:59:44 UTC 2020


On 5/1/20 1:22 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
>
> Dear LyX developers,
>
> I've been documenting a LaTeX program recently and have found the
> documentation toolbar useful, but this has highlighted a couple of
> symbols which could usefully be added to the toolbar. One is the
> section mark character § (\S in LaTeX), the other the pilcrow ¶  (\P).
> At present inserting these characters involves Insert > Special
> Character > Symbols and then locating the characters in the character
> table (which means scrolling down or increasing the depth of the
> dialogue window). They would fit perhaps after the information symbol `i'.
>
> Referring to chapter 4 or section 4.3 is fine but it begins to sound
> strained referring to subsection 4.3.2 and just silly referencing
> subsubsection 4.3.2.1. On the other hand, referencing §4.3.2.1 is
> simple and elegant.
>
I'm not much up on toolbars, but I have:

\bind "C-M-S-s" "unicode-insert 0x00A7"
\bind "C-M-S-p" "unicode-insert 0x00B6"

in user.bind, which produce those two characters.

Riki




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