Bo Peng wrote:
And those who will not learn should still be able to use physical markup
(although they should not be able to do this easily).
You guys are too idealistic.
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.
We don't have to be "too idealistic". We can use charstyles, and ship
a handful of "popular" styles with LyX. We've always had "emph",
for example. Usually emph is italic, but it can be redefined differently.
So if we ship LyX with built-in "emph" and "strong" charstyles, then
the users wanting bold and italic gets what they want. And we
still have the advantages of charstyles - a special document
class can override "strong" to do a color trick, for example.
Using charstyles doesn't have to mean that the user have
to define a style for everything he wants himself. We can
surely ship some styles that we think are "useful in general cases".
Helge Hafting
