On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 05:27:51PM +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Bo Peng wrote: > > > C-b works here. > > > > Why do not you remove C-b as well if you decide to hide it? If you > > have C-b, why cannot you have Toggle bold menu item (and toolbar > > icon)? > > This is nonsense. I do not argue in favour of removing bold, italic and small > caps. However, they should not be visible on top. Italic and small caps are > only accessible via the character style dialog, bold is accessible via the > character style dialog plus a shortcut, because we do not have a character > style for it yet.
Actually we do... it is called strong. > > If you hide bold, why do not you hide noun, emph and others? Do > > not tell me they are using charstyles. > > Of course. Noun (!= small caps) and emph (!= italics) are semantic markup, > while bf is not. > > Apart from that, I have told you the reasoning in the part of the mail you > have not quoted: > > > > What I think is that we should keep heading towards semantic markup. I > > > don't think it makes sense to introduce buttons and menus for physical > > > markup in 1.5.2, if our goal is to remove it in 1.6.0 anyway. > > The menu and toolbar icons for bold has not been removed for 1.5.0. I just do > not see the sense in implementing it now for 2 or 3 minor releases. > > Jürgen - Martin
