On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 12:48:16PM +0100, John Levon wrote:
> This is assuming that your font insets is the only structural approach.
> Which is wrong.
Possibly. I've not seen another solution so far, though...
> I do not see in what way font insets are any more
> structural than what the main text does.
Pretty easy:
- clear indication where we are exactly if the cursor is at
the "boundary" of a font change
- arbitrary nesting of font changes, including the possibility
of differentating \fontfoo{\fontbar{...}} from \fontbar{\fontfoo...}
- simple handling (S&R could come for free e.g.)
> Face it, André, these font insets *suck* from a usability standpoint, no
> ifs, no buts.
As at least two people are using it for regular work and are happy with it.
So there are 'ifs and buts'.
> They might be livable in mathed where text regions rarely last longer
> than a letter or two, but it would be unbearable in normal text
So we are not talking about mathed after all?
It is pretty clear that font insets are not ready for the rest as we can't
break them over several lines (yet).
Andre'
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