On Sep 19, 2006, at 3:26 AM, Helge Hartmann wrote:

No, there is no command for \emph. I was also wondering about that. But it's easy to add it yourself.

I've been wanting this myself. The command for textit is part of a general triple of commands "bold,underline,typewriter" that a bunch of languages have, and they are bound to the same keystrokes in all these languages. But I would be more than happy to add a command for emph, since it is IMO the most used way of highlighting stuff. We just need to find a good key equivalent for it.

Another option is to simply have ctrl-shift-W default to it. For those not aware of it, while ctrl-shift-W traditionally works with a selection, and then wraps it in a command, you can use it without a selection. In that case, after you've typed the command and pressed tab, you are taken inside the braces. In other words, with selection the command inserts the snippet: \\${1:text${2:bf}}}{$TM_SELECTED_TEXT} and without selection, it inserts the snippet: \\${1{text${2:bg}}{$3}

The idea the first part was that one could quickly and easily insert textbf and friends, but seeing how we have special commands for it there's no much reason to keep them here as well. So we could have this command default to, with selection: \\${1:emph}{$TM_SELECTED_TEXT} and without selection: \\${1:emph}{$2}

So this would provide one easy way of creating emph'ed text, via ctrl- shift-W. Then you/we can further add the shortcut: e = '\emph{$1} '; in the LaTeX configuration file. It currently contains: em = '\emph{$1} ';

So right now the fastest way to produce a new emph is to type em and press cmd-{. We could make that even faster with the above, so that pressing e + cmd-{ would create an emph environment (and add an extra space after it, which I find I commonly need when typing).

And of course we could create a dedicated snippet, so that em+tab or e +tab creates an emph-ed environment, or we could bind it to one of the (not that many) free key equivalents. So we have:

1. Set default behavior for ctrl-shift-W. 2. Add even shorter trigger for cmd-{. 3. Add dedicated command, with tab trigger "e" or with some (??) key equivalent.

I personally would prefer on of the first two options, and I think option 1 is the more appropriate at the moment. And of course 1 and 2 could be both implemented. Let me know what you think.

Helge

Haris

Thanks for adding this Haris!

But why not also create a command whicht toggles emphasis like the ones already existing for textit (cmd-I), textbf (cmd-B), underline (cmd-U), texttt (cmd-K) and assign cmd-E as a shortcut? For me, this would mean much less finger-acrobatics than those strange ctrl-shift- w or cmd-{ shortcuts. Especially on european keyboards ;-)

Maybe you find some time to add this, too.

Thanks in advance for all your work.

Oliver

On 19.09.2006, at 16:00, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

On Sep 19, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

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1. Set default behavior for ctrl-shift-W.
2. Add even shorter trigger for cmd-{.

I actually just went ahead and committed these two changes. For general reference for people not familiar with it, I've appended all the shortcuts used by the cmd-{ command at the moment. New shortcuts are added every now and then, and you suggestions would be welcomed.

Haris

it = '\textit{$1} '; bf = '\textbf{$1} '; tt = '\texttt{$1} '; sf = '\textsf{$1} '; sc = '\textsc{$1} '; e = '\emph{$1} '; em = '\emph{$1} '; fc = '\footcite{$1} '; fn = '\footnote{$1} '; cli = '\lstinline{$1} '; ds = '\displaystyle'; dis = '\displaystyle';

hf = '\hfill'; vf = '\vfill';

dc = '\documentclass{${1:article}}\n'; nc = '\newcommand{$1}{$2}'; rnc = '\renewcommand{$1}{$2}'; usep = '\usepackage{$1}'; geo = '\usepackage[left=${1:2cm},right=${2:2cm},top= ${3:1cm},bottom=${4:2cm}]{geometry}';

sec = '\section{$1}'; sub = '\subsection{$1}'; ssub = '\subsubsection{$1}'; subs = '\subsubsection{$1}'; cha = '\chapter{$1}'; par = '\paragraph{$1}'; subp = '\subparagraph{$1}';

fr = '\frac{${1:num}}{$0}'; frac = '\frac{${1:num}}{$0}'; l = '\lim_{$1} $0'; lim = '\lim_{$1} $0'; s = '\sum_{${1:bot}}^{$2} $0'; sum = '\sum_{${1:bot}}^{$2} $0'; p = "\prod_{${1:bot}}^{$2} $0"; prod = "\prod_{${1:bot}}^{$2} $0";

put = "\put(${1:0},${2:0}){$0}"; mp = "\multiput(${1:0},${2:0})(${3:5},${4:0}){${5:2}}{$0}"; mput = "\multiput(${1:0},${2:0})(${3:5},${4:0}){${5:2}}{$0}"; multiput = "\multiput(${1:0},${2:0})(${3:5},${4:0}){${5:2}}{$0}"; line = "\line(${1:0},${2:0}){${3:0}}{$0}"; cir = "\circle${1:[*]}{$0}"; circle = "\circle${1:[*]}{$0}";

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Ah, yes. Sorry I forgot...

On 19.09.2006, at 16:42, Allan Odgaard wrote:

On 19/9/2006, at 16:32, Oliver Hagmann wrote:

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[...] and assign cmd-E as a shortcut?

This key is “put selection on the find clipboard” -- something I would not be without ;) But you can do a local snippet on ⌘E, if you do not need it.

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This is exactly what I did. And I'm really satisfied with this solution.

Helgeh

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But you can do a local snippet on ⌘E, if you do not need it.

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I am with Sune on this one. In Latex you usually want the \emph and not \textit for context hilites, and if you really need the cursive font you can always use the "wrap…" command…?

Dan

Am 19. Sep 2006 um 16:56 schrieb Sune Foldager:

IMO we should definately use ⌘i for this, and lose textit.

Charilaos Skiadas <skiadas@...> writes:

On Sep 19, 2006, at 9:46 AM, Charilaos Skiadas wrote:

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2. Add even shorter trigger for cmd-{.

This should of course have been cmd-}

cmd-{ is for environments, cmd-} for LaTeX commands.

Haris

For the record... Please, think about us, poor europeans, for whom ⌘{ and ⌘} cannot be achieved :-)

TIA

For the record... Please, think about us, poor europeans, for whom ⌘{ and ⌘} cannot be achieved :-)

try alt-9 = } and alt-8 = {. Both can be combined with ⌘!

Dan (same goes for [])

On 19/9/2006, at 22:43, Sune Foldager wrote:

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Please, think about us, poor europeans, for whom ⌘{ and ⌘} cannot be achieved :-)

try alt-9 = } and alt-8 = {. Both can be combined with ⌘!

Yes, they work but are quite inconvenient :-p [...]

So is using ⌥⇧7 for , but I am not changing the regexp syntax for your poor europeans clinging to your native keyboards :p

On 20/9/2006, at 11:29, Helge Hartmann wrote:

Aren't you using a danish keyboard ;)

Nope, I switched to US long ago -- the same did DHH (who is also danish).

The danish keyboard is just awful for programming, shell stuff, etc.

Daniel Käsmayr <daniel@...> writes:

try alt-9 = } and alt-8 = {. Both can be combined with ⌘!

Not with my German keyboard, at least :-)

Daniel Käsmayr <daniel@...> writes:

Well, they can with mine… just substitute Apple-} with Apple-Alt-9 and you should be fine... but then it would be nicer to have a two- key combo, not?

Indeed. Mine is swiss-german to be precise and that does not work. I thought it was the same as the german one :-)