On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 01:05:38PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > >I, for instance, actually prefer having two separate positions at a font > >boundary. > > For the sole purpose of supporting dissolving?
No, for the prupose of being able to work with it. Right now I get the wrong behaviour in 50% of the cases and I have to do strange stuff to move from 'before the font change' to 'after the font change'. Getting a simple way to disolve insets is just a bonus. > I can see a problem - what if some word is wrapped in several insets? > I.e. it is both "foreign" (needs special spellcheck and that blue underline) > and also a "programming language construct" so it is set with a > special font. Finally, it might be emphasized too due to the sentence it > is in. > > Do you want 4 cursor positions in front of this word? In case there are four insets, sure. And each of them would have a meaning. Apart from that _four_ would be really rare. > And what inset will > dissolve when the user press backspace? "Do you feel lucky?"... Guess what. Insets are nested in a very specific order. There always at most one choice which inset to dissolve on "backspace". > Or should "many styles applied to the same range" be handled by a > single inset applying all those styles? No. > Now there is only one extra cursor position, and dissolving removes > everything. > >Of course this would emphasize structure and would not be acceptable > >by the finger painting faction as that's not what they used to. > > Do "structure" have to mean "hierarchical structure" that disallow > overlapping ranges? Yes. We need that for the external format anyway. ` > >Funnily enough though, the people bitching at finger painting at this > >list are also the ones that want non-structured fonts on screen. > > > >This is so illogical that I basically gave up participating in this > >kind of debate... > > > I do not mind that LyX is different in many ways. I just hope we won't > get limitations that feel very artifical, and that gets in the way of > normal work. I find mathed usable, and it uses fonts-as-insets. Andre'
