LyX ⇒ Shortcut for Subscript and Superscript

[katrinbhausen]

Hi,

I just want to know, if there is a possibility to create my own shortcuts and how it is working if it's possible. I'm writing a text and I have to subscribe and superscribe some numbers and I don't want to use the math-option. But it is really time consuming to click each time in the menu.

Thanks for your answers

KatrinBhausen

[kaiserkarl13]

I suspect this may be what you're looking for:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Symbols

If you want further customization, check out
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/KeyboardShortcuts

Google is wonderful sometimes.

[katrinbhausen]

Thank you for your fast answer. For sure, I googled a lot, before I have asked my question. And I also visited the pages you've posted. I think it wasn't completely clear what my problem is: I don't want to use the math mode.
I also tried to modify the .bind file by adding \bind "C-+" "superscript" and \bind "C-#" "subscript" but it didn't work. I modified it by a normal text editor, renamed it and loaded the new file in Lyx.

Perhaps I did something wrong? If so, or if you have an other idea how I can use these funktions without the math-mode, that will be great!

[kaiserkarl13]

I haven't tested it, but I suspect the second link I sent could be used to bind LaTeX's \textsuperscript and \textsubscript commands to a keyboard shortcut for easy insertion.

[drmCA]

I am surprised by the lack of interest from the developer to including subscript and superscript shortcuts into the distribution of LyX.

Writing an article about 3d world and going Ctrl-L \ all the time kind of defeats the purpose of using WYSYWYG tool.

Hoping I am making sense to the devs (hoping they visit this forum)

[lyxrocks]

if you don't want to use the math mode because of the font, you can insert normal text within a math environment. and then whenever you want to type a word with superscript/subscript, you can just paste the correct one and modify it, like this

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[drmCA]

Still don't understand the reluctance to provide rudimentally simple function used by every writer all the time.