Martin Vermeer wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:57:40AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote:
There are several large issues with this dialog collected in bug 3893. It
really doesn't work very well. Here is a radical suggestion: Get rid of it
in favor of character styles. So we'd have character styles like Italic,
SmallCaps, and the like, accessed via the Edit>Text Styles menu, rather than
through a dialog. These could all be defined in a StdCharStyles.inc file to
be included in other layouts.
Great minds think alike ;-)
I feel that the names should be Noun and Emphasized, as these are logical
(abstract) styles.
The Text Styles stuff sets things like italic and smallcaps---\textit
and \textsc---rather than the logical styles. This is part of what makes
it so confusing to new users, who don't distinguish \textit from \emph.
We already have the ability to set \emph via Ctrl-E, or whatever; the
ability to force \textit is different.
Richard
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