> I see your point. The problem is that noun and emph are not yet transformed to > the char styles ui. But they will (I think there's already a noun charstyle > in 1.5, but it's hidden somewhere).
> Putting a bold button there would just raise the confusion. Why can not you think of bold as another emph style?? Italic and bold are methods to emphasize. Let us put it in this way: people wants different emph styles that are commonly provided as bold and italics (or emph, or additionally \underline) by other word processors . Lyx has emph but not bold, and that is confusing and inconvenient (I am talking about toolbar/menu, not shortcuts). To new users, lyx has ONLY one emph style. Lyx has some good ideas about charstyle but charstyle is not quite usable now. So, in 1.5.x, we provide \textbf, \emph, and \none etc. In 1.6.x, we will make charstyle easy to use so users can actually configure \textbf, \emph etc, using CharStyle Strong, Emph, Nonu. There is no reason to reject textbf if you agree with the usability of \strong. In the end, \strong is 99.9% times \textbf. Bo
