Remove underline from tracked changes?

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 06:45:51PM +0200, Rasmus K. Rendsvig wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 02:32:55PM +0200, Rasmus K. Rendsvig wrote:
> > > Hi LyX devs,
> > >
> > > I tried asking this on the users' list a few weeks ago, but perhaps I
> > > should have asked here instead:
> > >
> > > I find that the underlining of added text when tracking changes is a bit
> > > distracting. I would like to disable just the underlining.
> > >
> > > Is there any way I can do that? I will happily attempt to edit the source
> > > and compile myself.
> > >
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Rasmus
> >
> > Hi Rasmus,
> >
> > Thanks for following up and sorry you didn't get a response on lyx-users.
> >
> > In LyX 2.4.0 (not yet released), there will be a preference to control
> > whether added text is underlined in LyX's display. You can see how it will
> > look in the attached screenshot.
> >
> > In case you're curious, here was the feature request that was implemented:
> > https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/10102
> >
> > If this issue is annoying enough that you would like to test a pre-release
> > of 2.4.0, we can give you information on that. The main problem is that any
> > LyX file you save with a 2.4.0 pre-release could not be opened in LyX
> > 2.3.x, meaning that if you are working with someone else, they would also
> > have to use a 2.4.0 pre-release. So it's best to wait until 2.4.0 is
> > officially released if you can.
> >
> > Best,
> > Scott
> >
> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
> Thank you for the quick reply, and I apologize if I now reply in an
> incorrect format: I was digest subscribed.

Your reply went to the list so that worked well.

> Also thank you for the information. I'm torn on using 2.4.0, as most of the
> work I that involves track changes also involves collaborators. I am
> curious to try it for fun, though, and see packages listed in the
> development ppa.
> 
> Since you do not mention five lines of code that I could possibly edit in
> the source code of 2.3.6, I suppose the matter is not as easily as that.
> 
> Again, thank you for the quick reply.
> As with every new release, I will look forward to 2.4.0.

Actually it might take even less than 5 lines of code to change it. You can see the fix here:

  https://git.lyx.org/?p=lyx.git;a=commitdiff;h=8e62dcc20fc226deb7fb48a9934391d2f9a0c712;hp=7c63896c601f43ced313b74e04336235ff09212e

On a quick look, my guess is that it would be feasible to modify 2.3.x. Are you on Linux? If you can compile LyX, then we can take a look to see how difficult it would be to backport the relevant code. Most of the diff above is about adding a preference, but you just wanted "no underline" hardcoded so you don't need to actually have the code about the preference.

Best,
Scott
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