Re: [Vym-forum] confused by xlinks

[Uwe D. - v. <vy...@in...>]

Hi Morel,

On Fri, Aug 27, Morel Bérenger wrote:

> First, I'm glad my 1st mail didn't reached because I was not
> registered: turns out the answer to my question would have been a good
> old RTFM, which have some mentions about the xlinks feature.
> 

Finally, someone has read my manual :-)


I agree, that the creation of xlinks needs to be improved, I am annoyed by this also. I hope
I find some time soon to do that...

> Now, I find it quite confusing and hard to use, for the following
> reasons:
> 
> * sometimes, it places some weird edge with a circle. I suppose those
>   are "trigger" to manipulate bezier curves, but it is, so far, never
>   what I wanted to do

Yes, these are the two control points of each xlink. If a xlink is selected, these become
visible and xlink and control points are "on top" of everything else, so that the points can
be moved, even if they are on some branch.

Selecting something else should make them dissappear again.

Btw. the xlink can also be selected in the tree editor.

> 
> I discovered Vym (and mindmappers) recently, and so far I really like
> it

Thanks :-)

> Great bonus point, it's even packaged into debian!


Debian packaging usually is a bit behind, I hope I can re-enable Debian builds here sooner
or later:


https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:insilmaril/vym

> * cancelling the "trigger" addition really cancels the last meaningful
>   action, and there is no way to just remove the annoying triggers
> 
> Would someone be kind enough to help me around those points?
> Note that the manual is nice, the fact to have it in the package is,
> also, a very refreshing thing, but it could probably be improved, it's
> a bit, pardon me, "messy" as it is. I mean, it's hard to quickly find
> the information one is searching for in there, for me at least.
> 

The source is in LaTeX on Github, any pull requests or also translations would be very
welcome!


Thanks
Uwe


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