Using Comment notes the right way

Daniel xracoonx at gmx.de
Sat Nov 18 09:28:49 UTC 2023


On 2023-11-17 10:12, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 17/11/2023 à 08:43, Daniel a écrit :
>> It still seems to me that LyX should provide a ready to use commenting 
>> feature that can be globally toggled on and off in the export. And it 
>> seems to me that the "Comment" note is on the right track here. It 
>> just needs a facelift (some nice label color and background color) and 
>> some additional features (toggling, free spacing) and it would be 
>> pretty close to ideal as a default commenting feature.
> 
> I do not see why Comment (which is a note output using the comment.sty 
> package) would be a good choice. Let's say instead that you want to 
> create a specially crafted note.
> 
> Then, what is free spacing doing here? Why would it be specially useful 
> in a comment?

On 2023-11-15 11:47, Daniel wrote:
> 2. Allow free spacing in Comments. That is typically a feature in sticky notes in other applications which is handy if one wants just to quickly type stuff down without bothering with special formatting. 

It basically offers more freedom to scribble as you like.

Daniel



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