On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 02:07:33PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote:
> > 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
Granted. Though I can't see I've had too many problems without this.
> - arbitrary nesting of font changes, including the possibility
> of differentating \fontfoo{\fontbar{...}} from \fontbar{\fontfoo...}
And what does this mean to the USER ?
> - simple handling (S&R could come for free e.g.)
This has nothing to do with the user, it is an (irrelevant to this
discussion) implementation detail.
> > 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'.
Huh ? We don't have font insets outside mathed. How are they using it ?
> > 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?
Your comment on lyx.org's claims clearly referred to LyX as a whole, so
I guess not.
john
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