Edwin Leuven wrote:
> Richard Heck wrote:
>> be the Default for that paragraph. The reason to make this distinction
>> is that it is one thing to say, "Give this paragraph the default
>> alignment, whatever that is" and another to say, "Make this paragraph
>> fully justified, no matter what". The difference will only show up in
>> certain kinds of cases, such as when one is changing layouts,
>
> really, who cares?
It has become sort of a religious issue (you are partly guilty), dunno
why ;-) The fact is that the thing is not really important, as one rarely
has to explicitly set the alignment in the first place (I think my most
frequent use case is centering a table or a figure, i.e. once or twice per
document!).
>> but it
>> seems to many of us, at least, that the difference should be respected,
>
> nobody has come with with a good reason to go the current route imo. the
> only argument seems to be "we should provide the ui since it is possible
> in latex", but even though something is possible it doesn't mean that it
> is sensible.
There are good reasons, the problem is if they are worth *one* more
radiobutton or not. You'll agree that it's not a life or death matter.
I would miss the possibility to reset a bunch of paragraphs to default
though, but it's not that I use it so frequently (in fact current svn is
broken in this respect and I didn't notice). If there is demand, one could
add the LFUN and be done with it.
> i also think that non-latex users have a reflex to set things explicitly
> and will therefore abuse the dialog to set paragraphs to justified even
> though it is the default etc.
In that sense maybe the old interface ("Default" checkbox + the rest) was
better? (*ducks*)
A/
