Am Mittwoch, den 04.01.2017, 16:34 +0100 schrieb Jean-Marc Lasgouttes: > This is an interesting point actually. In an ideal world, I'd like an > UI > which is not intimidating to people who just want, well, quotes, but > which can additionally cater for the needs of typography die-hards.
The world is not ideal. In the (academic) world I live, usually the publishers request a specific quote style after the text has been written. > Actually, what I miss is that the quote type that has been selected > by > LyX when I changed language is the right default for my language, > and > that I should not have to worry about it if I do not know what I am > doing. Ah, now I understand. Yes, this can be added as a separate feature. Note, though, that my research revealed multiple errors in the quote style designations (of the languages no developer speaks). So I would be rather reluctant to make it anything else than a "proposal". > It is to the "quote style" menu that I proposed to add a "language > default" value. Most users would leave it as it is and not have to > see > the scary list of quotes. The menu or the combo? > My point is that the user will probably not want to change a > french-style left outer quote to a german style right inner quote > very > often. And this is precisely the feature proposed by the 10 submenus. > I > think it is overkill and that the submenus could just be normal > entries > with check boxes. Well, then we can just ditch everything except for the first four entries. Jürgen
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