On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 10:42:09PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > I don't know anything about this feature, but I had to pause for a few > seconds when I saw it. I went through the following thought process: > > - Does "old" refer to how things were before 2.4.0? > - If this is about "figures", why is it a font setting? > > It would be nice to describe the feature in a way that LyX users who > don't know anything about "old style figures" can immediately realize > that they don't need to check those boxes or search for what they do. > The tooltip did not help me. It says "Use old style instead of lining > figures". > > Either for the feature text, or the tooltip text, would it make sense to > say something like "Use medieval numerals" or "Use medieval-style > numerals"? With one of those descriptions, I would have quickly realized > I don't need to know anything about the feature.
Either that or "Use antique numerals", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures -- Enrico -- lyx-devel mailing list lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-devel
