On 12/08/2011 06:23 AM, Guenter Milde wrote:
> On 2011-12-08, Richard Heck wrote:
>> On 12/07/2011 07:10 PM, Pavel Sanda wrote:
>>> Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
>>>> Le 08/12/11 00:45, Richard Heck a écrit :
>>>>> I thought about this for a while, and decided that, while you are
>>>>> correct about this, in principle, it's something I'd prefer to have
>>>>> per-document. If you object to that, then we can change it, of course.
>>>> To me, it is a user preference for all document (for example, people may
>>>> want that for UserGuide). Did you have requests for buffer-local setting?
>>>> Your solution gives both more (per-document) and less (no luck with
>>>> documents from others) functionality.
>>> wasn't this feature requested more times from CJK users? my understanding
>>> was that their text has fewer whitespacing and justified alignment looks
>>> horrible. in such case this property is bound to document language not
>>> just ui setting.
>> That's the kind of thing I had in mind. Think of German with its
>> insanely long words. One might want it for such documents, and not for
>> English ones.
> I want this setting for all Documents (be they German or English). It is
> also extremely useful for small screens and structured texts ((nested)
> lists, captions, ...).
>
Indeed. But I guess it seems to me, and apparently to Pavel, that the
flexibility in the per-document setting is worth having.
> But I can also live with a per-document setting (the only downside is that
> I'll have to wait for it longer, as this means a fileformat change).
>
Yes, unfortunately. Though you can always patch your own source. The
only change you'd need to make is at this point:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/changeset/40427#file4
Just remove the check for the setting, and switch BLOCK to LEFT always.
Richard
