Using Comment notes the right way

Daniel xracoonx at gmx.de
Sun Nov 19 06:47:06 UTC 2023


On 2023-11-18 10:28, Daniel wrote:
> 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

And also KeepEmpty should be enabled in commnents for similar reasons.

Daniel



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