On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 10:18:24AM +0200, Michael Schmitt spake thusly: > > > > > >Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >| So, the implementation is complete now including GUI. I don't find it > >| particularly elegant though; but it works and is clean, i.e., no dirty > >| tricks. > > > >Perhaps the implementation is not using dirty tricks, but I must admit > >that the whole solution feels a bit hackish... > > > I feel a little bit uncomfortable about the fact that a branch is equal > to a color (as the dialogs suggest). A color should only be considered > as a means to describe a branch. You don't "print magenta", you print > the "English version" (which is specified in "magenta" in LyX).
So you would like to see a possibility to assign a user defined name (like "English") to a branch, and then separately link a colour to that name? Certainly possible; one step extra for the user. And you have to include the name-to-colour lookup table into the document (I believe John does that for change tracking by author). > The second problem I see is that there is already a "color" field in the > character dialog. How do you distinguish branch colors from regular colors? See screenshot. The field is called "branch". In the status line, the branch attribute is listed as "ifmagenta", e.g. I admit that it will get messy if you want to combine "real" colours with branches in the same text. But it is doable. > Michael Martin
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