On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 03:26:25PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Asfor why I find it convenient, I do not like to use gratuitously the > mouse or the cursor key to change the depth of something (think about > a nested enumeration, and how you might not be sure how to organize > it; would you rather use depth-increment or <click><cut><click><paste>?)
depth-increment can be implemented as cut, insert inset of the same kind, move cursor, paste. Prefarably without touching the cut buffer. > Of course. What did you believe? We are both defending our usage > patterns and trying to negociate to find a middle ground. However, the > difference is that I do not want to make the decision on the number of > lines of code that we would gain. That's a fairly reliable measure. Better than anything else I've seen so far. > The examples you gave (minipage, footnote, table, ert) are actually > examples where the UI has been improved or kept unchanged. No. Entering/leaving ERT has exactly the same kind of problems font changes as insets would have. > Andre> Like what? What is annoying with the inset approach which works > Andre> better on the flat model? > > Using more cursor keys for the dubious benefit of precise font placement > (this is for fonts) or replacing the depth machanism with insertion and > deletion of bix boxes (this is for layouts) Like the new ERT insets? ;-} Would you prefer the old mess? > Andre> LFUN_LAYOUT (or similar) could be used to switch the style of > Andre> the inset enclosing the cursor. Or an new LFUN_MUTATE if you > Andre> want. Guess what mathed does when going from inline do display > Andre> to eqnarray etc... > > And then you will have to make it completely driven from the layout style > (nothing hardcoded, not like the 55 different insets known to mathed). > This means that an enumerate inset should be the same object somehow that > an itemize item (since we want to control that from textclass). After all it is just the difference between the strings "enumerate" and "itemize". So "LFUN_MUTATE foo" could just set the inset "name" to "foo" and be done. Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson)
