On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:59:51PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote: > Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >>For those not privy to the earlier discussion, the rationale here is > >>that such things ought to be replaced by character styles. We now have > >>such a style for code in the logicalmkup module, and with this > >>included one could bind a key to that charstyle if one wished. > >> > >Since we did not get rid of the other fonts changing lfuns (yet), I > >would suggest to simply rename the lfun to LFUN_FONT_TYPEWRITER > >instead. We need something to mirror LFUN_FONT_SANS and friends. > > > OK. I've committed a version that does that. > > Longer term, what is the plan here? There does seem to be a general > consensus that using charstyles instead of explicit font changes is the > way to go, and that's probably also true for size changes. It solves all > kinds of problems. But it's a radical change, to be sure, and if we're > going to retain the same functionality, then we'd have to have > non-logical charstyles like CharStyle:Sans. But then, maybe these could > be named differently---Font:Sans, e.g.---and put elsewhere on the menus, > so at least they wouldn't be confused with the logical styles. (And then > we do what we can to convince our users not to use these things but to > define and use logical styles instead. At least with modules, that's a > little less painful.) Those fontstyles (tm) could be then defined in > stdfonts.inc and included everywhere.
Actually I'm not too sure we should "re-package" font attributes as insets. They should remain themselves, only their direct use discouraged. I think that charstyles should be just that: _real_ charstyles. If you cannot think of something semantic to express with them, don't create them. (What does 'Sans' express for you? The LyX manual uses it to represent menu entries and the like IIRC.) (And remember, in the background / under the surface the font attributes are being used anyway, just look at the charstyle font definitions. CharStyle is just repackaging physical -> logical.) - Martin
