On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 11:30:59PM +0300, Martin Vermeer wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 04:51:39PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > > > > I don't even use any font lfun from qt math panel. > > But perhaps you should. Otherwise you won't be able to select a range of > characters and change them to some font. That's why the xforms side uses > dispatch. As I understand it.
I can select and type 'M-x math-insert \mathbf' or bind that if I need that regularily. > > > > dispatch(FuncRequest(LFUN_INSERT_MATH, "\\mathbf")) > > E.g. like this. > > André: does this do font change on selection? Yes. > I think the GUI should both support text?? and math?? for ?? = bf, sf, > tt, ... Yes. > The layout->character dialog should work inside math and do the same > things as for text... currently not quite so, it does a little trickery > in formulabase to produce mathcal and mathbb etc., and sans isn't > even provided. Not clean. But that's your GUI for text?? also inside math, > after clean-up. The styles/fonts sub-panel of the math panel should then > handle the math??. That would apparently require separate LFUNs for text > and math; sigh. > > Does that make sense? LFUN_FONT with arguments textbf and mathbf would suffice. > Great!!! Finally we're discussing essentials. I came to the conclusion that we are discussing a non-issue (apart from the missing textsf lin in lib/symbols). So unless people come up with code that does as they want Andr'e -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
