Bo Peng wrote: > There is nothing wrong to advocate charstyle, but there is no reason > to discourage the use of simple physical markup either. For simple > texts, bold and italic are perfect for their purposes. Because they > are used so often, they deserve a place in menu and toolbar.
I disagree. People should use semantic markup in any kind of text. If not, LyX/LaTeX probably is not the right tool. It's like with font sizes: if they insist on changing the font size to a fixed pt size themselves, they are better off with using a word processor. Jürgen
