Change to English on entering math environment

[Yotam Ohad]

Thanks, that's exactly what I wanted to do

On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 at 23:35, Udicoudco <udifoglle at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Feb 25, 2023 at 10:44 PM Richard Kimberly Heck
> <rikiheck at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 2/25/23 15:22, Yotam Ohad wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I usually write in Hebrew on Lyx, and when I create a math environment
> > > with `ctrl+m` I need to manually change the language to english.
> > >
> > > I tried looking for how to add something like this and saw that there
> > > are custom insets I can add. But I couldn't find how to actually do it
> > > (only how the syntax of the definition of the custom inset should be)
> >
> > I'm not sure what you want to add. Do you want a special inset that will
> > automatically change to English?
> >
> > One thing you can do is set up a shortcut to do the language change.
> > That would at least save fussing with the mouse.
> >
> > Riki
> >
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> >
> >
>
> I suggest using keyboard mapping, I think this is disabled inside math
> insets.
> Go to Tools->Preferences->Editing->Keyboard/Mouse, check the
> "use keyboard map" box, then write in the primary field null, and in the
> secondary field hebrew.
>
> Now when you write outside of math insets it should be in Hebrew,
> even if your keyboard is in english (so you won't have to switch).
>
> But how will you be able to write in english? as Riki suggested, create
> a shortcut to switch between the languages. To do so, go to
> Tools->Preferences->Editing->Shortcuts, press on New, in the Function
> field write (without the quotation marks) "language hebrew", and in the
> shortcut field, well, press the keys you want for the short cut.
>
> Regards,
> Udi
>
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