Hi Rob, Rob Oakes wrote: > Dear LyX Developers, > > I don't want to re-open the debate on the Font preferences dialog, but ... > I found that the new design was slightly distracting. In particular the > presence of the "Use non-TeX fonts" checkbox at the top of the list was > driving me nuts. Because of this, I took an opportunity to re-design the > dialog. (Attached is a UI file.) > > Here are the major changes: > > 1.) Grouped font options by function. Document fonts, scaling, encoding > into a "Document font" box. "Use non-TeX fonts", real small caps, > old-style figures, into "Advanced Font Features" box. CJK checkbox into > "Language and Script Options" 2.) Wrote out CJK into "Chinese, Japanese, > and Korean (CJK)". I didn't know what CJK was and though the > unabbreviated form would be better for new users.
But the CJK font is a font proper, so it's the same category than Roman, Sans, and Typewriter. Also I would keep the abbreviation. We have a tooltip to explain things. > My hope was to explicitly group options by function, as well as to clarify > the function of some of the fields. I (somewhat humbly) submit it for > your review. I'm not completely opposed to it, but the categorization looks a bit arbitrary in some cases. See CJK. Also the "use non-TeX fonts" checkbox was placed intentionally above the combos, since it affects the combo content (and the whole font selection UI). Jürgen
