On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, Asger Alstrup Nielsen wrote:

> I think that we should use the same container for all documentation 
> strings in LyX.  Having the LString dedicated for this purpose clears 
> the semantics immensely, and I would prefer to make LString a global 
> phenonomem in all contexts that deal with text from a document.  I think
> our own LString is good enough to be the default string, but having a 
> less usable string would be an error, IMO.

What I think it's an error is that our atomic text data structure gets so
tied to a very particular container that, if sometime in the future we
find the right container to fit its requierements, we will find
unnecesarily difficult to do the move.

Greets,

Alejandro

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