Rich Shepard writes:
>    Why not leave LyX trim, light, and fast and do more tedious
> editing directly in the *.lyx file?

From my original post:
> > There
> > were not enough of these to bother switching to search-and-replace
> > in my text editor,

>    I have a real peeve about those who want linux software (or any
> F/OSS software) to work the way _anything_ from Redmond works.

Sorry, should have known better. Scratch "MS Word Format Painter" from 
my original post and replace with "Open Office's Format Paintbrush."

>  Just because most of the
> computer using world is used to that way does not mean we should
> emulate it. 

True. Just because some feature is being used by "most of the 
computer-using world" makes it neither good _nor_ bad (unless we are 
talking about standards development).

To follow up on my original post, when modifying parameters via the 
Character and Paragraph menus I can already effectively do "format 
painting": I set the menu to remain on top of all other windows, make 
my changes, then click "Apply" each time. This does the same thing as a 
Format Paintbrush. But I don't see how to do this with the LyX 
environments (section, chapter, paragraph, etc.), at least not in 
1.3.5.

-Kevin


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Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tiros-Translations

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