On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 03:58:29AM +0200, Dov Feldstern wrote: > Bo Peng wrote: > >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. > > > > As an interim solution for 1.5, why not add a button which does "bold", > but which is called "strong" --- same as we have a button which does > "italics" (yes, I know that technically it's \emph, but most users --- > especially those new to LyX/latex --- think of it as italics) but is > called "emph". > > I think that that's simple enough for users who just want "bold" and > "italics", but just different enough to convey to those same users the > message that LyX is about logical (emphasis, strong) rather than > physical/typographical (bold, italics). Obviously, one of the most FAQ > will be: "how do I get bold/italic"? and of course the answer should be: > use strong/emph, with a short explanation about LyX's concepts of > logical rather than physical document-processing. [And I guess that if > this is done, the keybindings should also be adapted accordingly: no > more Ctrl-B, but rather Ctrl-S --- or whatever --- for strong.] > > Longer term, Character Styles and true Logical Markup are definitely the > way to go IMO, but see my thoughts on that in a separate message. > > Dov
Sounds good. - Martin
