> 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.
1. charstyle is more difficult to use than font change. For example, if you have abcdef in a charstyle, and you want to change all or part of them to normal style, several steps are needed. Toggle-bold etc are much easier in this case. So, for simple cases, font-change is easier and should be preferred. 2. charstyles are not ready for 1.5.0. There is no default charstyle defined anywhere, and there is no easy way to create one. Do you guys really expect a normal user to hand-edit a .layout file? 3. Bold is needed. In many cases, more than one emphasis style are needed so \em alone is not enough. In case that there is no \strong, \textbf should be provided. (My opinion is that both should exist). 4. Bold is commonly used so all word processors put them upfront. Jurgen argued that lyx is not a word processor, but that was nonsense. 5. Trying to force users to use lyx/latex in a certain way is wrong. Not able to mark a word bold in 5 minutes is enough for a new user to give up lyx. I do not know what else I need to say, and I will save my time for more important things.... Actually, this discussion should be posted to the user list as well, but users' opinions do not always count. Bo
