On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:42:40AM +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > Martin Vermeer schrieb: > > > > > Did you know that ellipses (...), quotes etc. are insets? > > > > No. But these things are singe characters. The idea is to set the text > > attribute via the text style dialog as the users expect it (at least the > > colloegues I recently explained LyX), and as it is in OOo, Word, Abiword, > > .... The output can be formatted text or an inset. > We can do much much better than having to go through the very cumbersome > text style dialog. I for one hates when I have to guess by looking at the > little dot space where is the superscript style starts and ends with > OO/Word. I much prefer the way I do it now using a math inset. So, if we are > to implement this feature in text only I'd much prefer a similar look&feel > as in mathed. > > As for the ui, context menu and shortcuts will do. > > Abdel.
I agree, though it should be on the menu tree as well. I think the inset should be based on a frameless textinset, but collapsable would be overkill. I don't think size or vertical position should be configurable, seeing how awful that usually looks in Word. The "text sub/superscript" is meant for things like 2nd, 3rd, or in French 2ieme, Nro, Mme, Mlle, ... where math is obviously inappropriate. Uwe what I get about your olleagues, are they using this for chemistry (CO2, H2O, ...)? If so, that deserves its own implementation, and there, math would be a more logical starting point than text. How does this sound? - Martin
