Additions to documentation toolbar

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 5/3/20 4:37 AM, Andrew Parsloe wrote:
> On 3/05/2020 3:59 pm, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>> 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
>
> Presumably you've added these yourself? 

Yes.


> They're not in any of the .bind files that come with LyX as far as I
> can see. Rather than copy these as shortcuts, I've added
>
>     Item "§" "unicode-insert 0x00A7"
>     Item "¶" "unicode-insert 0x00B6"
>
> to the documentation toolbar in my personal copy of stdtoolbars.inc. I
> won't have to remember the shortcuts that way. 

I don't have any view about whether these should be added to LyX's
version. Anyone?

Riki