On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 09:46:42PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > > I think the GUI should both support text?? and math?? for ?? = bf, sf, > > tt, ... > > We already have that. the math panel menus should insert the math forms, > the others should insert the text versions. I don't get why this is such > a big problem.
No, we don't! We should, I agree, but we don't: "emphasise" from layout->char inserts mathcal into math (not textit), and "noun" does mathbb, not textbb, etc. Look at formulabase.C:584-595. The problem is the lacking of separate LFUNs for the text and math versions, so some of them are "overloaded" here. > I don't understand what we're arguing about - I can't see a good reason > that the math panel should ever insert something other than the math > forms. I agree. But that requires separate LFUNS and getting rid of the overloading trickery above. Alternatively, Dekel's idea of making the same LFUNs do one thing in text (and text embedded inside math) and another in math. But then an explicit mechanism to embed text into math must exist as well. The current situation is a vague mix of both these ideas. > regards > john Cheers Martin
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