On 05/07/2018 08:56 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote:
> Dear all
>
> After having reworked the dialog and the manual, I propose to rename
> everything related to the character dialog "Text Properties" (instead
> of "Text Style").
>
> The reason is that almost everyhing set there (except for noun and
> emph, the only real text styles proper) is static (formal) markup. I
> propose to reserve "Style" for something that is a defined entity,
> something whose properties can be changed at a central place (i.e.,
> semantic markup).
>
> This also clarifies the UI, where you now have "Character Styles"
> (semantic markup) and "Text Style" (formal markup) next to each other
> (I'd even prefer "Text Style" over "Character Style", since the
> semantic markup does not only change characters, but the appearance of
> text passages [underlining is not part of a character, for instance,
> nor is enquoting]).

That all seems sensible to me.

Riki

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