Additions to documentation toolbar

Kornel Benko kornel at lyx.org
Sun May 3 09:08:26 UTC 2020


Am Sun, 3 May 2020 20:37:28 +1200
schrieb Andrew Parsloe <ajparsloe at gmail.com>:

> 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?

Sure Andrew. "user.bind" _is_ set only by the user, not by any of the provided
bind files.

> 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. Thanks,
> 
> Andrew
> 

	Kornel
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