On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 12:29:14PM -0400, Richard Heck wrote:
> Martin Vermeer wrote:
> >On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:56:31 -0400
> >Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>John Levon wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:37:43AM -0400, Richard Heck wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>You mean: No gui for constructing character styles? If so, that's
> >>>>right.
> >>>Right. That's critical before char styles can be said to be done
> >>>
> >>>>We lack any sort of layout editor, which we very much need.
> >>>>
> >>>We also need this; however, it is significantly less important than a
> >>>char style editor.
> >>>
> >>I'll guess that once you had the latter, you'd have 95% of the
> >>infrastructure for the former. But yes, we could start small.
> >>
> >I had once a working prototype for a charstyle editor based on "picking" a
> >combination of font attributes on-screen -- i.e., the combination existing
> >at the cursor location -- and converting it to a charstyle. Which could be
> >saved in the LyX document. It worked through the minibuffer
> >("create-charstyle mystyle"), but a GUI would not be hard to do after that.
> >
> What did you do with the charstyle once you had it? Write it to a file?
Yes... the LyX document file. A list of internal charstyles travelling
in its bufferparams.
- Martin
